Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!sixhub!crdgw1.crd.ge.com!ibmbin-request From: ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: v12i022: vgadisk, RAMdisk in VGA memory (part 01/01) Summary: Use VGA memory for RAMdisk Keywords: VGA, ramdisk, util Message-ID: <3816@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 91 05:06:20 GMT Sender: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Lines: 261 Approved: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP X-Submissions-to: ibmbin@crdgw1.crd.ge.com X-Questions-to: ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Checksum: 2037071328 (Verify with "brik -cv") Posting-number: Volume 12, Issue 022 Submitted-by: frandsen@diku.dk (Tommy Frandsen) Archive-name: vgadisk/part01 This is a new one on me! A RAMdisk which uses the extra memory in a VGA card! Just the thing for that XT with a VGA. The submitter says: Hi again. Thanks for including UCGA in c.b.i.p. Below is another program that i have written: VGADISK allows you to use the memory of any VGA graphics adaptor as a 176K RAM disk. I have never seen such a program published before and I think it will be of great interest to many, so please include VGADISK soon in c.b.i.p. Thanks! 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