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  • ReSizeable RAMDisk

    From August Abolins@1:229/390 to Gerrit Kuehn on Thu Jun 12 12:35:00 2003
    Hi Gerrit (of 2:246/4020),
    On <Wed, 11 Jun 03, 21:56 o'clock>, you wrote me:

    Maybe you mean this one?
    SRDSK208.ZIP 78870 7-15-96 1:00 ReSizeable RAMDisk 2.08.


    Hey... sounds like that might be it! I remember trying a couple of similar products before I settled on one. But the author's name sounds unfamiliar. Anyway.... it was really handy even if i just needed 250k ramdrive on the 286.
    When I moved to a 386 machine, and 4 meg ram, a larger ramdrive was great when
    viewing .ZIP contents and storing temporary files during the day.

    I'm rather disappointed that modern WinMe and XP don't feature ramdrive capability. I already have /tmp and /tmp/000 folders where I unpack zips and look at certain downloads - but I don't necessarily need to keep all the stuff in there - I just don't always remember to clean up those directories even if I
    think I'll keep a few things for a week or 2 longer.


    ...August

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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267 to August Abolins on Fri Jun 13 14:27:10 2003
    Thu 2003-06-12 11:35, August Abolins (1:229/390) wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

    I'm rather disappointed that modern WinMe and XP don't feature
    ramdrive capability.

    It's possible to install a ramdrive in Win2K. The technique probably works in XP and Win2003 too. You have to download a small driver though. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/4/05.ASP

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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267 to August Abolins on Fri Jun 13 14:29:42 2003
    Thu 2003-06-12 11:35, August Abolins (1:229/390) wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

    I'm rather disappointed that modern WinMe and XP don't feature
    ramdrive capability.

    It's possible to install a ramdrive in Win2K. The technique probably works in XP and Win2003 too. You have to download a small driver though.

    See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/4/05.ASP .

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    * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Mt Eliza, Melbourne, Australia (3:633/267)