On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 5:57 PM dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >[..] > I haven't read through the entire thread, but I am curious about why > the person whose email request was referenced *wanted* a RAMdrive for > DOS targer than 8GB. >[..] > With a big enough RAMdrive, you could create it on startup and copy > *everything* you used to it and run entirely off the RAMdrive. I > could do something like thet with the Win64 RAMdrive. You can define > an image file to be loaded to it after it is instantiated, and I could > theoretically load everything I use to it, but the benefits don't > justify the effort.
It's an interesting technical achievement, to be sure. So on that end, I think it's cool. But I'm not convinced an 8 GB RAM drive for DOS is the best way to use that memory. + pros: When the system boots up, you can copy all of DOS into the RAM drive, and everything will run faster after that. - cons: The initial copy is slow because you're copying everything. And changes in the RAM drive aren't preserved when you reboot. RAM drives make sense on DOS for cached files or a temporary area ... but does DOS need an 8 GB temp area? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
