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From: andrew@cs.utk.edu (Andrew Krzywdzinski)
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Subject: Re: Maxidisk- The best ramdisk there is
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Date: 13 Dec 90 16:01:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.140513.26615@wam.umd.edu> dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net (David M. Baggett) writes:
>
>Does Maxidisk handle files bigger than 512K?  I don't know why, but most
>of the RAMdisks I've tried seem unable to handle big files.  To test
>any given RAMdisk, I copy nethack.ttp (> 600K) into the RAMdisk, and
>then try to run it.  With almost all RAMdisk drivers I've found you
>get two bombs when you try to run the copy.  :-(
>
>Dave Baggett
>dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net

Hmmm. If you have a 1040, isn't 1040/2 = 520 ? I always thought that if
you have a ramdisk, the program still has to be "loaded" into the memory.
It's just that it is so much quicker to copy memory->memory, it's not
noticeable.
So unless I'm totally off on this one, you won't be able to run files
bigger than 512K unless you get a memory upgrade...:-(

-andrew krzywdzinski  (andrew@cs.utk.edu)