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1 total messages Started by Ralf.Brown Wed, 07 Mar 1990 12:47
Re: popen()
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Author: Ralf.Brown
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 12:47
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In article <348@comcon.UUCP>, roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) wrote:
}I can't tell from experience, 'cause my wimpy litle machine only has
}640k, which leaves precious little room for a ramdisk.

How times have changed....  When I started with PCs in early 1984, I had plenty
of space after putting in a 160K RAMdisk on my 256K machine.  Of course, Turbo
Pascal 1.0 fit on a single 160K disk back then, instead of five 360K disks for
TP5.5 (and that only by compressing a bunch of files)....
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