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[zazou]

Up and running now

This is my main reason for installing one: Chrome / FireFox hates your SSD
Second: I've got 64GB to play with.

Here's a great roundup of RAM disks that looks amateur but thorough enough not to be sponsored by a particular vendor. Great reading too.
Based on that I chose SoftPerfect's RAM Disk and after a bit of playing around with the settings it's now functional.

[Boo]

AIUI RAM disks have gone out of fashion because OS disk cacheing is now so advanced that it is generally quicker to turn over any available RAM to the OS rather than utilise it in a RAM disk.

Boo

[vwdan]

If we could get back on topic, presumably SSDs and even spinny disks now have several Gb of cache RAM which is effectively trying to act as an automatic RAM drive - how does this compare to a real one?

I'm not sure they all do actually - but they don't compare at all. Consumer grade stuff won't do much, if any, write caching due to the risk of data loss and even so small caches are only useful if you're accessing the same data.

[d000hg]

If we could get back on topic, presumably SSDs and even spinny disks now have several Gb of cache RAM which is effectively trying to act as an automatic RAM drive - how does this compare to a real one?

[woohoo]

Memory lane.

Greenlake has changed CUK for good!

[DimPrawn]

I'm so old I remember when technical was about answering technical problems, not a stroll down memory lane.

Memory lane.

[woohoo]

I'm so old I remember when technical was about answering technical problems, not a stroll down memory lane.

[RSoles]

The first computer I've programmed was HAL 9000

Somehow that comes as no surprise.

[AtW]

The first computer I've programmed was HAL 9000

[anonymouse]

Orange VDU, before the boring beige arrived.

[anonymouse]

Stone me, a fellow

And one who knows what ISIS-II is.

And might have seen a Blue Box with an 8080 in it.

I wrote a cross assembler for the 8080 that ran on a GA 16-220 minicomputer.

Then they introduced macros to the source code & I couldn't be arsed to add that bit so stopped using it.

Which slowed stuff down no end until we got some Z80 cards to plug into the pc to run the ISIS assembler & linker.

Gosh:

CP/M Blue thunder card

Had to look up ISIS-2, but remember CP/M, also DR/Dos, and later Wordstar, Supercalc, Lotus 123

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS_(...ystem)#ISIS-II

[Scruff]

My UNIVAC was shared by over a 1000 students. Punch cards, no monitor (only the Prof. had access to a green screen). RAM disks were a thing of mystery in '83.

[anonymouse]

Thread now renamed "Your oldest computer memories"

Small stuff :- Nascom, Commodore PET, Apples 2e, Tandy (Don't think it was the TRS80, but think it had 10inch floppy drive), Apple Macintosh, IBM PC (and Apricot clone), ICL OPD. BBC micro, Atom, ICL DRS300, ICL DRS6000
Language :- Pascal, Assembler on Z80, 8086, 6502, Basic, Microfocus Cobol/2. Still got Windows 95 install discs.

Bigger stuff :- ICL ME29, ICL 1900 (naked in West Gorton)

[RSoles]

Did I mention it had a Coral-66 compiler?

[RSoles]

My first machine had 16k EPROM, 2k of static RAM, and 16k dynamic which didn't work until I discovered what decoupling capacitors were for.
Added two 8" floppy drives, more RAM, ported Intel's ISIS-II operating system to it, instant(not) Intel-MDS (compatible) for 1/10th the price(still a fortune in today's money).

Sad old git qualification, priceless.