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- From: WHITESR@APPSTATE.EDU (Steve White)
- Subject: FAQ is STILL wrong re Maxima
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.181111.8641@lester.appstate.edu>
- Sender: news@lester.appstate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:11:11 GMT
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- The following is found in the FAQ for this group.
-
- II. The Question of the Year:
- Why is my system using so much memory?
- * * *
- If you're staying with System 6, Maxima from Connectix ($45
- street) will let you use the extra memory as a RAM disk.
- * * *
-
- This is still WRONG. I wrote the author of the FAQ months ago and
- explained the error, and I posted to the group re the error after
- that. Why has this not been corrected, especially since it is
- "question of the year"?
-
- I know Maxima. It is a friend of mine. And, Maxima can do more than
- make extra memory available as a RAM disk!! Right now I have 14,336K
- available as full application memory under System 6.07 -- thanks to
- Maxima and an understanding wife who consented to buying more
- simms!! Also thx to Maxima, I ALSO have 3052K available as a RAM
- disk!
-
- My 3052K RAM disk is a portion of RAM set aside to act like a disk until
- there is a loss of electrical power.
-
- On the other hand, my 14,336K application memory is as usable as any
- other RAM to load iapplications and documents into RAM and dynamically
- use them.
-
- Maxima is a great product that does much more than create a RAM disk!!!!
-
- Please correct the FAQ.
-
- Steve
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