🚀 go-pugleaf

In a precious article, I write:

It would be real nice to have, especially for
software developers.  This kind of personal computer really doesn't
need it though.  I seem to crash each computer equally as often when
writing code for them.  It takes longer to reboot the Amiga though.
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In reply, johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes:

>Try using the Amiga warm-bootable ramdisk,

I admit this will help alot.  Except when the machine crashes so hard
that it won't warmboot off the raddrive.

>or a hard drive :).

I wasn't being fair my Atari has a hard drive, the Amiga does not.  But,
when I didn't have a hard drive for the ST, it still beat the amiga on
cold boots.

>Do Atari ST's have a bootable ramdisk, or even a ramdisk whose contents
>survive a warm boot?

Yes.  There are at least two or three.  I haven't had a need for a ramdisk
for a while now though, so I don't remember the names of any.  as for warm
booting the ram drive, I never thought about doing that.

>John Lindwall                            johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM



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