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From: plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Reset survivable RAM disk?
Message-ID: <340053@hpsgpa.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 89 07:26:00 GMT
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Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr
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> On the Atari ST I use, I have a ram disk which will survive a warm
> reset with its contents intact. This is extremely useful when doing
> things which are likely to crash the machine, as it saves having to
> copy the ram disk's contents (e.g. compiler, editor) back from floppy
> disk every time I hang the machine. Is such a thing available for a PC
> or is there some reason why it would be difficult/impossible to do?
> 
I remember in the PC and XT hay-days that there was a RAM disk and
cache program called PC-Accelerator which allows you to do this. However,
I never really needed this feature as I graduated to the hard disk
era fairly soon.

Anyway, I see a problem with relying on this trick to work. Usually,
when I trash a system and hangs the computer it really hangs for good
and Ctrl-Alt-Del will not be able to free it. Hence, I usually have to
do a cold boot after crash.

Anyway, that's info.


Regards,
Peter Lim.
HP Singapore IC Design Center.

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