ccastdf@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave) (03/20/91)
If anyone knows of one of these, please send me mail. All I can find are ramdisks that use conventional memroy. Thanks, Dave -- David Frascone ccastdf@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Office of Information Technology--User Assistant
c60b-1eq@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) (03/20/91)
In article <24710@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastdf@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave) writes: >If anyone knows of one of these, please send me mail. All I can find are >ramdisks that use conventional memroy. Really now, how about DOS's VDISK.SYS? I think the switch is /E in order to use extended memory. =============================================================== Noam Mendelson | "I haven't lost my mind, c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape University of California at Berkeley | somewhere."
carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll) (03/21/91)
In article <1991Mar20.053950.13874@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: > >Really now, how about DOS's VDISK.SYS? I think the switch is /E in order >to use extended memory. > That's fine if you have it (as I do at home, where, alas, I have only 640K), but neither of the DOS boxes I use at the office have VDISK.SYS; they have instead a driver called RAMDRIVE.SYS which uses expanded memory. Now, you wouldn't want us to violate the terms of anyone's Microsoft license agreement, would you? -- Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com
mcastle@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) (03/22/91)
In article <3734@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> carroll@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) writes: > That's fine if you have it (as I do at home, where, alas, I have only >640K), but neither of the DOS boxes I use at the office have VDISK.SYS; they >have instead a driver called RAMDRIVE.SYS which uses expanded memory. The DOS 4.01 version can use expanded or extended. /a for expanded /e for extended -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | XEDIT: Emacs mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| on a REAL Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | operating all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | system. :->
fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (03/22/91)
In article <24710@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccastdf@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave) writes: > If anyone knows of one of these, please send me mail. All I can find are > ramdisks that use conventional memroy. DOS 3.0-3.3: device=vdisk.sys ... /E DOS 4: device=ramdrive.sys ... /E (extended) device=ramdrive.sys ... /A (expanded) That's all folks!