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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you make a RAMDISK?
Message-ID: <5233@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 16:12:56 GMT
References: <18100@netnews.upenn.edu> <4377@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <4377@pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>In article <18100@netnews.upenn.edu> parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP
> (Gary Parnes) writes:
>> What exactly do I have to put into my config.sys/autoexec.bat to
>> make a Ramdisk?  I have 1 Meg of memory, so that 384K is just
>> sitting around often.
>
>Well, maybe that memory is sitting around, and maybe not.  It depends
>on how your system (and specifically, your ROM BIOS) is designed.  If
>you have an 8088 or 8086, the memory is lost, gone, inaccessible.  If
>
Maybe, maybe not.  Care is required here.  I have a Zenith Z159 (XT)
machine at home with 1MB.  Zenith's EMM.SYS driver recognizes the 384K
as an "EMS Board" with 384K available.  I've made RAM disks there with 
public domain RAM disk programs.  PC Tools recognizes it as EMS memory
and uses it to speed the loading of its programs.  Maybe it just depends...

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