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From: kailun@cs.washington.edu (Kai-Lun Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: a question about wind
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.062140.28188@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 06:21:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.1124.6053@canrem.uucp> "william richardson" <william.richardson@canrem.uucp> writes:
>TM>Yes and Yes.  If you have the program manager up you can see just how much
>TM>space you have left in memory at each step too.  More ram will allow you
>TM>to have more open without swapping to the hardisk and you can also make
>TM>your swapdisk a ram drive.
>
>That's stupid. If you had a ramdrive you would be wasting ram windows
>could use.
>Windows lets you set TEMP= to a ramdrive but SWAP is a no no for a
>ramdisk. It's in your windows 3.0 manual under RAMDISK.
>Set up a permanant SWAP file on your HD is the best idea.
>
>William Richardson
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I set up a permanant SWAP file recently.  Thank you for all your reply.

kailun