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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram: and VD0: (was Re: Speed of linking)
Message-ID: <8805170632.AA26959@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 17 May 88 06:32:06 GMT
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>   Could someone explain WHY RAM: is 6x faster than VD0:?  Is it
>impossible to have a recoverable RAM disk that is anywhere near as

	VD0: simulates a trackdisk.device and thus all access goes through
DOS's disk oriented filing system.  RAM: on the otherhand *is* a DOS device
driver and handles the packets (open/close/read/write....) directly.

>fast as RAM:?

	Easily.

>  -Keith Mancus
>  <kpmancus@phoenix.princeton.edu>

			-Matt