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Article #6554Re: Ramdisks in high memory
From: Tom Reingold
Date: Thu, 15 May 1986 13:07
Date: Thu, 15 May 1986 13:07
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>Anyone know a safe, well behaved way of getting it to use high memory
>(stuff from 640K downwards) for the RAMdisk? The DOS manual says you
>can't allocate memory (or do most anything) from device drivers, so I
>can't do clever grab/free tricks to get the right piece.
>--
> Bob Eager
>
There is a program called fastdisk and it comes as a device driver
that you load with the config.sys file. It comes with the software
that you get when you buy an AST board. It is like MS-DOS's vdisk
program but it also does what you want.
I don't know how you can buy such a program without buying a board
but maybe they will sell them to you. I don't have their address
with me at the moment but the company is in Irvine, California. I
know you are in England, so if you don't have the address, write
back.
Tom Reingold
Rockefeller University
New York City
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!rna!rocky2!reintom From: reintom@rocky2.UUCP (Tom Reingold) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Ramdisks in high memory Message-ID: <197@rocky2.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-May-86 09:07:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rocky2.197 Posted: Thu May 15 09:07:38 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 12:22:29 EDT References: <1893@ihlpg.UUCP> <1897@ihlpg.UUCP> <2104@cbosgd.UUCP>, <1194@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Organization: Rockefeller Univ., N.Y.C. 10021 Lines: 26