Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : McDoob
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 11:34:41

 pF> That's a nice feature. The only time I played around with RAM drives was
 pF> in  the old 286/386 era, with slow IDE drives. You'd create a little RAM
 pF> disk in  EMS to put command.com and a couple of utilities you used a
 pF> lot, and use  the rest as a cache. There was a sweet spot you'd have to
 pF> find by taking  cache RAM for the RAM disk.
 pF> 
 pF> Oh, the things we did when we had 4MB of RAM.  :)

There are plenty of utilities that still do exactly this. It's a paid product, but I fully encourage you to check out PrimoCache's 30-day trial. The license is not per-computer, it's per customer; if you do a format, you can email them and ask for a license reset. However, you can't use the license on multiple computers simultaneously, unless you've paid for a multi-use licence.

While SATA certainly is faster than ye olde IDE interface, it is just as slow when compared to the NVME interface, which is pretty exclusively SSD territory. This is why I still use PrimoCache for my platter drives in T3H_B33ST. RAM (and NVME SSDs) will *always* be faster than a HDD, but the per-GB price crown still belongs to the HDD...

McDoob
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