Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!gatech!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsb!jabusch From: jabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Ramdisks in high memory Message-ID: <5100128@uiucdcsb> Date: Thu, 15-May-86 09:23:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.5100128 Posted: Thu May 15 09:23:00 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 19-May-86 00:33:49 EDT References: <1893@ihlpg.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:ihlpg.UUCP:1893:uiucdcsb:5100128:000:774 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!jabusch May 15 08:23:00 1986 If you have a little money to spend, you could purchase Microsoft Windows. It comes with a ramdisk that will load into either extended or expanded memory, if memory serves me correctly. Windows can use this for swapping processes in and out of the 640 space DOS uses for work. However, I have used the same ramdisk in my path as a test, storing commands that I use a lot, and had no problems with it. Microsoft would have you believe that it's better than VDISK.SYS... The nice thing is that with the $99 you get, you also get Windows, which does have some merit. You don't need a mouse to run it, although you really want one if you use the bundled paint program. The rest of the programs run fine without a mouse, though. John Jabusch