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Re: RAMDRIVES larger than 4MB ?

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From: Jen Kilmer
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:47
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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 ?  

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.
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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
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