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From: reintom@rocky2.UUCP (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Ramdisks in high memory
Message-ID: <197@rocky2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 09:07:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocky2.197
Posted: Thu May 15 09:07:38 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 12:22:29 EDT
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Organization: Rockefeller Univ., N.Y.C. 10021
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>Anyone  know  a  safe, well behaved way of getting it to use high memory
>(stuff from 640K downwards) for the RAMdisk? The  DOS  manual  says  you
>can't  allocate  memory  (or do most anything) from device drivers, so I
>can't do clever grab/free tricks to get the right piece.
>-- 
>           Bob Eager
>
There is a program called fastdisk and it comes as a device driver
that you load with the config.sys file.  It comes with the software
that you get when you buy an AST board.  It is like MS-DOS's vdisk
program but it also does what you want.

I don't know how you can buy such a program without buying a board
but maybe they will sell them to you.  I don't have their address
with me at the moment but the company is in Irvine, California.  I
know you are in England, so if you don't have the address, write
back.

Tom Reingold
Rockefeller University
New York City
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