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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: RAMDRIVES larger than 4MB ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.064700.23177@microsoft.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 06:47:00 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1il0dqINN4ur@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <1993Jan9.001731.9708@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- >In article <1il0dqINN4ur@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> sb@next.neuro.emory.edu writes:
- >> Can someone tell me how I can create a ram disk larger than
- >> 4MB ?
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- Use the ramdrive.sys program from MS-DOS 5 or Windows 3.1. Actually,
- they're the same program. (The MS-DOS 5 manual says it's limited to
- 4M because that's what the limit was when we sent the manual text
- to the printer...can you say, "last-minute change"?) Limit is 32M,
- using either XMS or EMS ram.
-
- If you've a copy of Vdisk.sys from IBM DOS or Compaq MS-DOS, it'll
- likely go up to 16M.
-
- -jen
- not speaking for microsoft, in fact, they don't know i'm posting.
-