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- From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: ram disks a kludge?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.1480.23094@dosgate>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 13:35:51 EST
- Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Lines: 15
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- -> 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.
-
- To a large extent I'd agree -- but I still think it has its uses. As I
- posted before, I'm looking for a fully OS/2 RAM drive device so I can
- have a place to put files I know I'll only have around for a few
- seconds/minutes (this happens a lot when I'm testing out shareware/PD).
- Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but I feel sort of bad grinding my HD for
- stuff like this.
-
- kenneth.tam@canrem.com
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