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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: HOW TO LET TP6.0 USE RAM DRIVE INSTEAD OF HARD DISK?
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 14:42:34 GMT
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In article <11907@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Q.Zhou) writes:
>My hard disk is a bit slow. So when I worked on TP5.5, I moved all tpu's
>to ram drive. However, on TP6.0, the hard disk is always being used. Is
>there any way to let TP6.0 use ram drive?

I'd guess a large part of the disk activity is swapping overlays.  You could
put TURBO.EXE onto the ramdisk, or leave enough free EMS that it can use
that for overlays.  (You may have to enable EMS use; I forget exactly how
to do that.)

Duncan Murdoch