Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unsvax!jimi!otto!rex From: rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Multitasking on the ST Message-ID: <970@otto.lvsun.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 17:37:00 GMT References: <8908021826.AA05333@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <62441@linus.UUCP> <4050@hall.cray.com> <62828@linus.UUCP> <968@otto.lvsun.com> <485@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Reply-To: rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff) Organization: Las Vegas Sun Lines: 38 In a precious article, I write: It would be real nice to have, especially for software developers. This kind of personal computer really doesn't need it though. I seem to crash each computer equally as often when writing code for them. It takes longer to reboot the Amiga though. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In reply, johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes: >Try using the Amiga warm-bootable ramdisk, I admit this will help alot. Except when the machine crashes so hard that it won't warmboot off the raddrive. >or a hard drive :). I wasn't being fair my Atari has a hard drive, the Amiga does not. But, when I didn't have a hard drive for the ST, it still beat the amiga on cold boots. >Do Atari ST's have a bootable ramdisk, or even a ramdisk whose contents >survive a warm boot? Yes. There are at least two or three. I haven't had a need for a ramdisk for a while now though, so I don't remember the names of any. as for warm booting the ram drive, I never thought about doing that. >John Lindwall johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM -- Rex Jolliff (rex@otto.lvsun.com, {convex, texsun, mirror}!otto!rex) The Sun Newspaper - |Disclaimer: The opinions and comments in Nevada's Largest Daily Morning | this article are my own and in no way Newspaper | reflect the opinions of my employers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -