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To: Joe Sheets who wrote (165)	1/9/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 2120

HI Joe; I spelled it wrong , it's vramdir, it's a shareware stand alone program, cost $10 to get a full version. It does a better job than just creating a ram disk in memory, which you can do with windows ramdrive.sys, but then have to map stuff to it with the set command. vramdir makes it easy and it's dynamic..meaning it can addjust it's size on the fly. It also beats the pants off win95s smartdrv. To get a real advantage you need at least 32meg memory..64 is much better, and you get around all that isidious disk write/read crap built into win95. Which is the real drag on any intel type system, as not even the PII knows how to operate like a risc chip, and can get java all hung up, if disk writes come at the wrong moment. Intel type cpus are not truly multitasking like they say they are. Thats just hype they convinced the puplic of. I'm doing a work around by paging to ram, most of what would have to go via a disk controler, and then to disk. It's only about a hundred times faster, and java don't hangup, untill I run out of memory..like if I forget I got the java window running and start loading word, an excell , and 4 browsers and a scan program, and then spool something to the printer, I can get in troble. :-) Jim