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to: August Abolins
from: Robert Bull
date: 2003-06-15 20:56:48
subject: CMDTIME

Hello, August;

09 Jun 03 10:39, August Abolins wrote to Robert Bull:

 AA> I had a rather good-natured 286.  Infact, with 2meg it was rather

I suspect you were lucky  :-)

 AA> could create a ram-drive.  I forget the name of the util, but unlike
 AA> other ramdrive utils, this one allowed changing the size of the ram
 AA> drive on the fly and it even allowed removing and adding the ramdrive
 AA> without rebooting!

Got a note of these in my allfiles list;

FU_RD19G.ZIP   72341 10-28-97  XMS/EMS RAM disk installable and resizable
                               from command line. You can choose the drive
                               letter. Up to 2 Gbytes supported.
SRDSK202.ARJ   53986 01-27-93  ReSizeable RAMDisk 2.02. Copyright (c) 1993
                               Marko Kohtala. Released Jan 27th, 1993. SRDISK
                               is a virtual disk device driver and controller
                               capable of using over 32M of XMS (2.0) or EMS
                               (4.0) memory.

I think the second one was the popular one.  I see from other msgs it's 
rung a bell  :-)

     Regards,

              Robert.

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