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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Resident (bootable) PD Ram disk available ?
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Date: 27 Oct 88 08:24:35 GMT
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In article <235@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>Yep.  The ram disk that comes with Mark Williams C compiler is a
>BOOTABLE ram disk; if you push the reset button and the ram disk was
>installed as bootable, the system boots off the ram disk.  Source is
>included, all for only $179!  You, of course, receive a free C compiler
>with the ram disk program :-).

Yeah, I really like this program. Works on my Mega-4, too. It's slightly less
useful with a hard drive, because the hard drive autoboot overrides the
RAMdisk boot. (Why wait for disk accesses when you don't have to, eh?) It's
also slightly confusing for me now when I disable the autoboot at the keyboard
(to boot a game off a floppy, for example) and I get the RAMdisk boot
instead. (Yeah yeah, just reconfigure the disk without boot enabled. It's not
easy deciding what to preload into a 1.6meg ramdisk, though...) That's the
feature I like most about this program, though - you can boot it preloaded
with whatever directories and programs you want. Makes it that much faster
to go from power-up to actually working with the system.
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