Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 10:17:18

  Re: Re: Browser tabs
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to boraxman on Thu Mar 31 2022 06:54 am

 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 lot,
 PF> and use the rest as a cache. There was a sweet spot you'd have to find by
 PF> taking cache RAM for the RAM disk.

 PF> Oh, the things we did when we had 4MB of RAM. :)

I did that occasionally.  But more often, I had a disk cache TSR that I used in DOS that would cache frequently-used programs & files in RAM to speed up access.  A similar effect to a RAM disk, but more dynamic than putting a fixed set of files on a RAM disk.

Nightfox
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