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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RRD Next release?
Keywords: Is RAM: dead?
Message-ID: <4986@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 88 07:33:45 GMT
References: <1504.AA1504@heimat> <17311@gatech.edu> <308@cadomin.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs Hermosa Beach, Ca
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In article <308@cadomin.UUCP> filip@cadomin.UUCP (Don Filipchuk) writes:
>In article <17311@gatech.edu> conn@panda.UUCP (Avery Shealey) writes:
>>In article <1504.AA1504@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>>>  I have the 1.3 RRD and ASDG's VD0: but I use (and prefer for the reasons above)
>>>  the one by Neil Katin called VDK: also known as Survivor. (VDK: is a commercial
>>>  product - not PD or ShareWare)
>>> Dan "Sneakers" Schein   {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
>
>
>    Does anybody know if the new 1.3 release will have the
>  old RAM: device?  Or does the new 1.3 RRD **REPLACE**  the 
>  RAM: disk.   It's just that I find the old, unrestrained
>  RAM: disk so useful when starting some quick and dirty
>  operation that might eat up huge chunks of memory, and
>  I don't want to trash my VD0:....
	The old ram: handler will remain in place. It DOES have its uses.

The sadest thing about RAD: is it only marginally works on my machine. At
DevCon I won one of the 1Meg AGNUS chips. That blows the OS mind so that a
sanity check in it decides things are corrupt and it has to recold boot.
Byebye rad:. Carolyn has generated a little utility called "saverad" that
helps. But nothing we can do really makes it survive a GURU very well.
Thank heavens for the recovery speed I get with the HardFrame prototype I
have been working on and debuggin. At least a boot from HD is much better
than from floppy! (And the HD is now much faster than rad:. It boots up
with ffs!)



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>|      Don Filipchuk         | "... with human females, I must           |   
>|                            |    restrain myself too much.  They are    | 
>|   University of Alberta    |    quite fragile."                        |
>|    Edmonton, Alberta       |                                           |
>|          Canada            |             - Lt. Worf --                 |
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Gee, Worf, ya cudda fooled me? You're really awfully cuddly you know!

<deep throated growl!> YUMMY YUMMY!  <unsane giggle>

-- 
Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit.
Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one.

{@_@}
	jdow@bix (where else?)		Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes
	jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM		the knight. Does the fair maiden ever
	{backbone}!gryphon!jdow		win? Surely both the knight and dragon
					stink both stink to high heaven.