Re: Re: Ramdisks in high memory

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From: Bill Crews
Date: Tue, 27 May 1986 23:39

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> According to every book on the subject I have ever seen, the standard Ram Disk
> software for the PC, "VDISK.SYS", automatically uses the highest memory that
> MS-DOS knows about for the buffer area. It won't put it into extended memory,
> but it'll put it just under the 640K mark which should leave your fast 256K
> alone.

Correction:  vdisk.sys has an argument with which one may specify that the
RAMdisk reside in extended memory.

>        The source to VDISK is published in one of the IBM manuals.

Correction:  vdisk.lst (the *listing* file for vdisk.asm) is supplied on
the PC-DOS "supplemental" diskette.

> -- Peter da Silva
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Subject: Re: Re: Ramdisks in high memory
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