Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 09:45:00

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

4MB? We used to dream of 4MB.  Never had a 286 with more than 1 although I
did see the odd one with 2 in them.

 pF> in  the old 286/386 era, with slow IDE drives. You'd create a little
 pF> RAM disk in EMS to put command.com and a couple of utilities
 pF> you used a lot, and use  the rest as a cache. There was a sweet
 pF> spot you'd have to find by taking  cache RAM for the RAM disk.

Back in them there days, I'd have the 384k hi memory as a ramdrive and
shuffle all the BBS menus and screens onto it.  It was a toss up though..
although it made BBS response time fast, cacheing could give more general
advantages. Once the BBS files got over 384k though it was cache all the way,
althought RAMDrives on network machines was always interesting. Cache at the
receiving end, RAMdrive at remote was still pretty quick.

Spec


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