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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: RAM disks in DOS sessions
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.004255.3347@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <92206.084129GERLACHJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <exujlg.115.0@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:42:55 GMT
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- In article <exujlg.115.0@exu.ericsson.se> exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier) writes:
- >>I use a statistics package (Systat and Sygraph) that makes only limited use of
- >>EMS memory (1.5 Mb) but will use a RAM disk if available. Is it possible to
- >>setup a virtual RAM disk for the full screen DOS session I use to run this
- >>app (I have 8 Mb of RAM)?
- >I had the same question posed to me here at work by someone, so I decided to
- >check it out. Tried loading RAMDRIVE.SYS (the version that comes with Win3.
- >1) and got an error message stating, essentially, that block device drivers
- >will are not allowed under a DOS virtual session.
-
- You could use a specific DOS session if you really wanted to get this
- running. See the online Command Reference under VMDISK and/or
- Appendix E of the Installation Guide for details.
-
- >Now, what use is a ram drive if it is written as a character device? ;)
- >Seriously, can someone enlighten us if it's possible to do this?
-
- The reason setting up a RAM drive is not intuitively obvious or
- convenient is that the reason for a RAM drive, in most cases,
- disappears when running OS/2 2.0.
-
- I will let others work out the reasoning, but it should be fairly
- obvious why a RAM drive, really a kludge from the DOS world, isn't all
- that necessary in the OS/2 world.
-
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