From:	j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Message-Id:	<199607040518.AA272947520@relay1.geis.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Jul 96 05:01:00 UTC 0000
To:	laurin AT cyberhighway DOT net
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Mime-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Bug in stubify.c

Reply to message 6760284    from LAURIN AT CYBERH on 07/03/96  8:09PM


>umm, could someone please, tell me what a ramdisk is. i have seen this many
>times, and yet, i can't find out what this means.

*sigh*.  Try looking up 'ramdrive.sys' in the MS-DOS help files.  Essentially,
a ramdisk is a piece of your computer's memory (RAM) that is being used
exactly like a real, physical disk drive.  Hence RAM-DISK.  The advantages
of a ramdisk are that anything placed on it can be accessed at the speed
of your computer's memory, rather than the relatively slow speed of your
hard drive.  This can vastly improve performance in many programs.  The
disadvantage is that anything in the simulated disk drive created by the
ramdisk is lost when you turn off or reboot your computer, so you must
move anything you want to keep onto physical storage first.

John

P.S.:  To appease the gods of the mailing list, I must tell you that there
are more appropriate places to ask a question like this.  :)
P.P.S:  Try to pare down the .sig, ok?  ;)

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