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From: MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: VDK:
Message-ID: <8901221646.AA01207@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 89 14:10:44 GMT
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Nearly a month ago I posted questions regarding recoverable-ram-disks.
I found that for my set up (an A1000 with 1.5 meg) certain recoverable
ram disks were not useful to me.  I found RAD: to be a hindrance be cause
is not re-sizeable.  I found VD0: to be 2x or more slower than the others.

I found a 'Beta Test' of VDK on a BBS.  However, it seems that this
file may have been pirated.

>I guess occasionally we have to post a reminder... there NEVER was an
>official PD version of VDK:.  This was always a commercial (though a
>VERY low cost) product written by Neil Katin, once of Amiga Computer.
>At one point in time, when version 1.0 of the product was out, someone

Are you absolutely sure about this?  I found a 'beta test' of VDK on a BBS,
complete with docs.  It even includes a sample mountlist entry.
Neil Katin's copyright is in the VDK-handler as well.
Here is an excerpt from the doc file :

:This file: README.  Last Changed: 8 Jan 1987
:
:This is an beta test of the vdk "virtual disk" handler.  There are no
:known bugs, but the system has not been extensively used either.  Please
:report bugs to Neil Katin @ 408-866-5276.  Make sure you leave a phone #
:where I can call you.

Can you explain this?  At any rate, I have posted messages to
comp.sys.amiga for a month now inquiring an address to send for
the official version of VDK and I have only received another phone
number which was not answered when I phoned it.
An address would most appreciated.


Dennis Gorrie

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