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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: os/2 ram drive
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.210902.23554@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul27.1480.23026@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:09:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.1480.23026@dosgate> "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com> writes:
- >Has anyone written a RAM drive device for OS/2 2.0? I don't want a
- >RAM drive that's accessible only from one particular DOS session/image,
- >but something that all software can access.
- >It might sound like a waste of memory, but I've found a small RAM drive
- >to save a lot of disk wear'n'tear for testing out new programs and for
- >running programs that create/modify temporary files a lot.
-
- OS/2 comes with one (VDISK), I believe.
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