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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A REAL ramdisk
Message-ID: <938@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 2 May 89 17:50:09 GMT
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From article <8904301910.AA07292@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by USQB015@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Mark Powell):
> I`m not into GEM enough to know whether a ramdisk that grows and shrinks
> in "normal" TPA area is possible, but I know that to create such a ram
> disk that survives reset is not possible.

Well, it may just be possible with a few tricks (which I, sadly,
don't have enough knowledge to describe).  I know that
Applications Systems Heidelberg prodwce a ramdisk called FLEXDISK
which has options for 'reset-resident' and 'grow and shrink to fit
the space required by the programs you put in it'.  I don't
remember if you can choose these options to run concurrently.

Flexdisk was 'hardwired' to the German ROMs, but I hear they're
thinking of doing an international version.

Graham

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