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From: opielask@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu (AAron nAAs,,,2684025)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: A REAL RamDisk
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Date: 28 Apr 89 14:23:28 GMT
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I have been using RamDisks *FOR EVER*, and constantly replacing the one I am
using with better one's as they came along.  
I currently use MaxiDisk which is reset survivable AND compresses everything
that you put into it, automatically!  MaxiDisk appears to be a normal ramdisk,
in use and action to the user, EXCEPT that you can put about 700K in a 500K
Maxidisk!!

BUT I AM NOT SATISFIED!

I heard there are ramdisks for the Amiga and the Mac that ajust their size
as you put files into them.
Say you install this ultimt:Jimate ramdisk at bootup.  It takes up very little
memory (maybe about 20K max) until it is used.  You pump about 400K in files
into this ramdisk of ramdisks, and it uses about 320K of the system (300K for
the compressed files (Like in MaxiDisk) and about 20K for the controller).
Then you go to run an application that wants *LOTS* of memory, and you can't
because you don't have enough avaliable.  So, you delete some files in your
ramdisk to free up some RAM.
   Think about it.  A ramdisk that you don't have to mess with sizing, a
ramdisk that takes up only as much memory as the files you put into it and a
ramdisk that takes up less memory than the files you put into it (ala Maxidisk)
   Of course, unless it is reset survivable, it isn't worth it, so can't forget
that!
 
   Have I explained suffiently?
   Have I sparked imaginations?
   Have any hackers tried this?
   I "dont think" this exists yet for the ST, yet, does it?
 
I WANT THIS ULTIMATE RAMDISK !!!

Oh, I will send MaxiDisk to ssyx soon.

AAron nAAs
opielask@clutx.clarkson.edu
naas17@snypotba