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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 10:59:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: laurin AT cyberhighway DOT net, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RAMdisk (was: Bug in stubify.c)
In-Reply-To: <199607040518.AA272947520@relay1.geis.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960704105712.23994H-100000@is>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> disadvantage is that anything in the simulated disk drive created by the
> ramdisk is lost when you turn off or reboot your computer

Another disadvantage (that frequently goes overlooked) is that ramdisk 
usually is quite small and can be easily filled with large temporary 
files, after which point programs start mysteriously to fail...

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