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Re: Command.com in ramdisk

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From: White Jason David
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 02:20
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In article <cs352a41.671590865@zippy> cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) writes:
[...]
>Admittedly, this isn't a great speed-up, but I haven't any easy way to use
>my upper 384K for anything else.  Speaking of which, anyone have any ideas
>what I could do (for free) to utilize my 384K better than a Ramdisk?
>--

Yes, set it up as a disk cache.  You'll love the difference in access time.
This is, of course, assuming you have a hard disk.

Jason White // jdwhite@iastate.edu // "Get bent!" - Bart Simpson
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