Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!i2unix!inria!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Maxidisk- The best ramdisk there is Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 12:05:51 GMT References: <2875@polari.UUCP> <1990Dec13.140513.26615@wam.umd.edu> <1990Dec13.160126.20497@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@laas.laas.fr Organization: LAAS-CNRS France Lines: 23 In-reply-to: andrew@cs.utk.edu's message of 13 Dec 90 16:01:26 GMT In article <1990Dec13.160126.20497@cs.utk.edu> andrew@cs.utk.edu (Andrew Krzywdzinski) writes: | | 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...:-( This is wrong! It depends on *how* the file is copied to the RAM disk. On my old 1040 ST I've had RAM disks as large as 700 Kb. Never had trouble with huge files. Only if gulam had less than 60 Kb available to do the copying. Cheers, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Reliable software should kill people reliably! -Andy Mickel, Pascal News #13,78