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From: rjtm@ihuxl.UUCP (Rich)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Apple Pascal and the RAMDISK
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Date: Tue, 22-Nov-83 15:16:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 22 15:16:27 1983
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Has anyone out there used Apple Pascal on an Apple system with a RAMDISK?
( I think RAMDISK is the correct term, I'm referring to the external 
peripheral device which is actually a bunch of RAM but appears to the 
Apple as two disk drives.)

Is there a marked improvement in such things as compile times in Pascal 
when using the RAMDISK instead of a real disk, and does anyone have a 
rough estimate of the improvement.  

A friend of mine told me that when using the RAMDISK with DOS files, 
it did not perform as well with text files as with binary files.  Does
anyone know if this is true and why?  Does this have any effect on its
use with Pascal.

Any info would be appreciated.

                                Thanks,						
                                Rich