Re: Large RAMDRIVE

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From: Ashok Aiyar
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 14:09

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In article <79330@hydra.gatech.EDU> gb8@prism.gatech.EDU (BEEBE,GARY E) writes:

>Is there a DOS 5.0 compatible RAMDRIVE equivalent capable of creating ram
>drives greater than 4M? I have a need for a ram drive that is as large as my
>system memory (16-64M). Any ideas?

The MS-DOS 5.0 manual is incorrect.  The version of "ramdrive.sys" distributed 
with DOS 5.0 will create RAM drives larger than 4096 kb (4 MB).  A few months 
back, I was using a 12 meg RAM drive created with MS-DOS 5.0 "ramdrive.sys"

Ashok
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                              Ashok Aiyar 
                      Department of Biochemistry
                       CWRU School of Medicine
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Subject: Re: Large RAMDRIVE
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:09:10 GMT
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Summary: RAMdrive.sys will create large RAM drives

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