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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

sheywood AT shentel.net wrote:
> 
> I have heaps of megabytes of extra memory in my machine that
> I'm not using.  I don't have enough space on my hard drive at
> this time to set aside to make a partition for a hard drive
> installation of BasicLinux.  It would be really cool if we
> could have two different versions prepared for a ram drive
> installation, one being a package for a small ram drive and
> another for a much larger ram drive.  I hope this idea of mine
> will fly well.  One thing I really like about running programs
> on a ram drive instead of on a hard drive is that everything
> runs so much faster and smoother and slick on a ram drive.
> Of course I am also very much aware of the disadvantages of
> running programs on a ram drive.  I hope nobody gets on my case
> to inform me of the drawbacks of using a ram drive because I
> already know about them and I have already considered the pros
> and cons of all that.
Amen.
DRAM is so cheap. Screwing up a ramdrive in a crash is no problem.
when you are done surfing or whatever, save your work, then turn it off.
No 'shutdown' required. Just like dos!

What's a SWAPDRIVE for? dont look well managed to me.