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From: edrury@percival.UUCP (Ed Drury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: External Ram Disk
Message-ID: <815@percival.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 16:35:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:35:42 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jul-87 03:36:05 EDT
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Reply-To: edrury@percival.UUCP (Ed Drury)
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In article <1035@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> stone@calgary.UUCP (Glen Stone) writes:
>Yes I'm designing the thing to be as flexible as possible.
>The concept of battery back is interesting. It is easy to provide the
>logic, but consider this:
>
>
>       o How long should the batteries last, depending
>         on size of memory and time required you may
>         want a portable generator.
  The batteries should be able to give you about 8 hours. That would get you 
through most outages. 
The product that comes to my mind instantly is Semi disk. It had a BBU that 
is perfectly wonderful!
>I strongly reccomend that the use of this ram disk does not get
>distorted. The reason I've decided to make is to speed up my
>software development cycle....READ TEMPORARY FILES.
 I see it has a great way to speed up disk intensive
applications like DMS and ah yes BBS programs. With a reasonable Battery
backup unit it would be perfect for shuch applications.


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