Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!edrury 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 Article-I.D.: percival.815 Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:35:42 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jul-87 03:36:05 EDT References: <8707221840.AA04445@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1035@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Reply-To: edrury@percival.UUCP (Ed Drury) Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 24 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. ..Remember, if some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some DOS, just say no ...!{ucbvax,ihnp4,seismo}!tektronix!reed!percival!edrury