Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!schein
From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recoverable Ram Disks
Message-ID: <3042@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 16:42:18 GMT
References: <2203@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 53

In article <2203@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>>       Are you using the FINAL released version (1.0)? VDK was pirated
>>       early during its development stages and most people I speak with
>>       were/are not aware of this. (They also are not using the released
>>       version)
>>
>
>                  I was also unaware of this.  The version I use was included
>                with my "Pacific Peripherals" memory expansion.
>
      The release version opens a window on your startup screen that tells
      you if an existing VDK has been found, if any files are bad, if it is
      starting a new VDK, ect, ect, ect.  In the title bar of this window
      is says VDK V1.0 (or something close). If you received your with a
      Pacific Peripherals product, then I would assume it is a release
      version.

>>	Beta or Release?) Im not sure just what you mean by "carefull
>>	memory wise" - I use it on a 5meg and a 3meg machine and im very
>>	sloppy with leaving unneeded programs and crashed tasks just
>>	laying around.
>>
>
>>   Dan Schein		 uucp: {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!schein
>
>                  I am not trying to knock vdk:,  I'm just trying to point
>             out difficulties I've had with it.  Where might I get the latest
>             release?   One nice thing about vdk: is that it is nearly as fast
>             as ram:, whereas vd0: is not.
>
>                  By carefull "memory-wise" I mean that if I have a
>             complicated, highly fragmented useage of memory, that vdk:
>             is less likely to recover.   Usually it require 3 or more
>             earlier resets to cause this to happen, but it does happen.
>
>                                                           Thanks,
>
>                                                                Wade.
>

  On the same note, im not trying to promote VDK:, im just trying to find
  any problems (bugs?) that I should be aware of. Not being of the kind that
  does frequent saves when developing something, I count on a RRD to be there.
-- 
   Dan Schein		 uucp: {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!schein
   Commodore AMIGA			Bix: dschein	     Plink: Dan*CATS
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