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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: An external RAM disk for the ST
Message-ID: <234@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 00:09:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 21 00:09:41 1987
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Summary: The MSDOS add-on box is ideal for that - if it exists

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The MSDOS add-on for the ST was supposed to have up to 768K of RAM.
It could serve as an ideal external RAMdisk (while you're not using
MSDOS) - reset-proof and bullet-proof (a buggy program could not
damage the data on it in almost all cases).  (When running MSDOS
you could use the ST RAM as a RAMdisk...).

BUT:  the rumors on that device have been discontinued since the
Atari PC was announced.  I hope it is still planned, and I would
really like to hear an official word about its current status.

- Moshe Braner

Optimist:  A person who pays $1000 for a complicated
           high-tech device with no documentation.

Pessimist: A person who pays $2500 for a similar device, with
           a guaranteed $1000 upgrade path 18 months later.