Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 20:23:31

 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.  :)
 pF> 

I had a small ramdrive for my XT where I put command.com and maybe an archiver, I think it was lha.  That was a system with 640K of RAM, and I felt free to reserve a little for a few utilities!

I did also occasionally use it with my 386, which had 4M of RAM, for speed on rare occasions when doing some file transformation.

When moving to Windows, I didn't use it, because I didn't think it had a ramdrive, but I started again later in Linux, just to stop files being persistent.  I could just unzip stuff I didn't need to keep and not worry about them hitting the platter.  With the next system, the one I have now, with 8G of ram, the ramdrive, tmpfs, is the perfect place to temporarily store intermediate files, ISO images that I've created to burn to a disk and won't keep, etc.

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