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From: franco@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ram disks and OSS Pascal
Message-ID: <500043@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 09:09:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 09:09:00 1986
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Nf-From: iuvax!franco    Feb 23 09:09:00 1986


I have found that Mike's RAMDISK works conditionally with 1MEG and TOS in
ROM.  Mike's RAMDISK can be set to any size above 100K.  It has the following
drawbacks:

   1. It seems that if one originates execution of a program from a
      floppy drive some avaiable memory is lost (until the next boot).
      However, this does not seem to happen (except perhaps initially)
      if one originates execution from the RAMDISK.

   2. My version of Mike's RAMDISK does not allow resizing of the RAMDISK.
      But this is a relatively minor drawback.

I have found this RAMDISK very useful - especially for compiling in C
using the developer stuff.  I simply open 'er up to 700K, dump all
the .h, .o, library files, compiler and linker and source into the
RAMDISK and let 'er rip from device D.  I have made up to 15 straight
compiles without a problem this way.  Also, the time for compile has
been as low as 40 seconds (must be a world's record for the DRI C)
on small files (producing 15K executables).  At the moment I can easily
live with this RAMDISK and I recommend it to anyone needing a stopgap
until a real RAMDISK (occupies upper memory, allows resolution change,
can be resized, size at boot can be preset (even to 0), no memory loss
through executions etc.) can be developed.  Frankly, at this point I am
so fed up with PD RAMDISKs that I will go out and buy one once I know
there exists one that meets my specifications.  If anyone can help out here
please do!