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From: OHA101%URIACC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Resident
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Date: 5 Jun 89 16:27:07 GMT
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     I've heard a lot of people talk about using 1.3's (And ARP 1.3's)
 resident command.  I toyed with it myself once.

     Quite frankly, I can't understand what the attraction is.  What's
 wrong with copying it to a RAM disk?  Then you don't have to worry about
 the Pure bit.  I would immagine that both ways take the same amount of
 memory and time at bootup.

     There was some discussion about the possibility of making the resident
 commands stay in memory upon reboot.  VD0: or RAD: will do that just fine.
 (RAD.  What a silly name for a ram disk.  I use Commodore's driver, but
 call it VD0: in my mount list ;-).  Or if you don't want them on reboot,
 send them to RAM:.  Could someone enlighten me to the advantages to
 resident?

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