Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 10:29:00

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

My use case was pretty specific but back at 286 it was ramdrive first, and if
it was overfilled go to cache.  Once we got to a 386 with more memory and
better management thereof it became a split.  I couldn't multitask over my
network drivers so all the higher memory was available I'd split it between
RAM for the really frequent small files, menus, screens etc, and the rest as
cache which improved not only local drives but network drives out of sight.
Also because the DOS TSRS were pretty dumb you'd have to tell it now to cache
the ramdrive :P

Spec


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