a question about wind

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From: william richardson
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 21:20

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TM>Yes and Yes.  If you have the program manager up you can see just how much
TM>space you have left in memory at each step too.  More ram will allow you
TM>to have more open without swapping to the hardisk and you can also make
TM>your swapdisk a ram drive.

That's stupid. If you had a ramdrive you would be wasting ram windows
could use.
Windows lets you set TEMP= to a ramdrive but SWAP is a no no for a
ramdisk. It's in your windows 3.0 manual under RAMDISK.
Set up a permanant SWAP file on your HD is the best idea.

William Richardson
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From: "william richardson" <william.richardson@canrem.uucp>
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Subject: a question about wind
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Date: 11 Jun 91 16:20:23 EST
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