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From: forrest@sybase.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: How to Use Borland's VROOM Technology with a RAMDISK?
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Date: 4 Dec 90 01:47:40 GMT
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I recently took advantage of Borland's upgrade offer to Quatro Pro
2.0. So far I'm very happy with it except for one minor detail.
It appears that my hard disk is being accessed much more often than
I would expect. For example, when I'm entering numbers into a cell,
the red access light on my disk drive goes on as I enter each number.
Plus, as I do small tasks the light goes on. I suspect that this is
due to the VROOM technology swapping out parts of Quatro Pro in
its attempt to emulate virtual memory.

What I'm wondering about is if it's possible to have VROOM use my
RAM disk to do its swapping. I have 8 Megs of memory of which
7 Megs is configured as expanded memory. Since I'm using the wonderful
PC-KWIK Power Pack, I could have almost a 7 Meg RAM disk which I'd
rather swap to than to my real disk. I've read everything that came
with Quatro Pro and I didn't find anything that tells me how to do
this. I haven't called Borland Tech support partially because I'm
lazy and partially because the answer to this question might be
of interest to other readers of this group.

Here's Hopping,

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Jon Forrest WB6EDM
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