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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Resident
Message-ID: <8287@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 6 Jun 89 00:29:04 GMT
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in article <16912@louie.udel.EDU>, OHA101%URIACC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (F. Michael Theilig) says:
>      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.

You imagine wrong. If you put a program into RAM: then later run it,
AmigaDOS copies the program out of RAM:, into memory somewhere, and
executes it. If you Resident a program then later run it, AmigaDOS
runs it "as is". In other words, when you run a program from RAM:,
it's taking up twice as much memory.

Of course, now that I have a hard drive, I don't even have CD and LS
Ares'ed :-). 

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