TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: fido_util
to: Robert Bull
from: August Abolins
date: 2003-06-16 11:01:00
subject: ramdrives and stuff

Hi Robert (of 2:250/501.4),
On Sun, 15 Jun 03 at 20:56 o'clock, you wrote me:

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

 RB> I suspect you were lucky  :-)

Correction..  it was a 286 that had 4 meg capability.  Unusual, but
wonderful for the 2 yrs I used it the most.


 RB> Got a note of these in my allfiles list;
 RB> FU_RD19G.ZIP   72341 10-28-97  XMS/EMS RAM disk installable and
 RB> SRDSK202.ARJ   53986 01-27-93  ReSizeable RAMDisk 2.02. Copyright (c)
 RB> I think the second one was the popular one.  I see from other msgs
 RB> it's rung a bell  :-)

Yup.  When I think back, I remember how wonderful it was to implement a
rescalable ramdrive on the fly.  It was so useful and efficient!  With
today's computers there is so much casual waste in hdd storage and ram
memory.   My WinME machine is now 3 years old, but I've only recently
implemented RamPage (v1.6) to help recover unused memory during the course
of a day's usage.  I notice a performance improvement.


...August

--- FMail/Win32 1.60
* Origin: . (1:229/390)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 229/390 1000 106/1 2000 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.