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« on: July 15, 2007, 18:43:18 PM »
drive that is?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6897265.stm
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2007, 19:42:50 PM »
One of my compatriots started using RAM drives years ago, and now has tweaked a system that can address 6Gb of DDR2 667 RAM...  Shocked

It's a shame the RAM drive option vanished after Win3.11... or am I wrong?

He hopes one day to put Windows and all his programs into EPROM so that he will have an instant-on/ instant off PC....

He likes to twiddle with puters.... Roll Eyes
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2007, 20:13:06 PM »
Funny, innit? I had that with my old Amiga. Good to see the IBM-compatible finally catching up in at least one area...

You can get a ramdrive with XP. Not sure how you'd do it, though, without TweakXP Pro.

This might help...

http://cyberwizardpit.net/article3.htm

It might be a bit of a bummer, for me, coz I only have two gig of RAM.
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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2007, 20:25:30 PM »
did not the old PCW hold the lot in RAM?  I seem to remember loading the system into RAM and then the progs.  256 or 512k?
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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2007, 09:51:33 AM »
A ramdisk survives warm reboots, so you can boot straight into it, I believe. That was the case with the Amiga, anyway.
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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2007, 19:20:53 PM »
you can actually buy RAM drives you know..

connect them like a sata disk or so and it'll get displayed as a harddisk
I wouldn't install my OS on it though..

I did make a RAM disk with XP once.. installed a game on it too.. the game is a bit old.. already did run too fast but with RAM disk I had no loading times and matches vs computer were impossible to win.. I had been defeated by a massive army before I could click my first building  laugh
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2007, 20:16:08 PM »
pwnt!
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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2007, 19:02:28 PM »
yeah.. owned too  Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2007, 05:02:07 AM »
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