well, in dos/winslows 95/98 you have ye olde ramdrive.sys
(I was thinking of putting gobs-o-ram in my comp. and
setting it up with ramdrive.sys so I could copy quake2 to
a ramdrive and squeeze more fps out of it, have to
wait less for the hdd, etc... :P then I woke up
and realized how much ram costs (for the 168 pin stuff)
and how big q2 is and decided that wouldn't be too good
until cost per mb on ram was lower (ie $1 per 2mb))
heh.
btw, I used ramdrive on my old 486sx20 (4mb ram) sort of
as a disk drive cache... I would setup a 1.44mb ram drive
in my memory and copy the contents of a disk there so it
runs faster :P hehe... I was desperate for speed then...
(please excuse my half-asleep ravings, er, rambleings)
-James, N9XLC
-
-certified NERD
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sharp <
>
To: R. Paul McCarty <
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Cc: 
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Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?
>> > Could Linux be made to operate in this fashion?
>>
>> Aren't RedHat install cd's 5.x bootable?
>
>Yes, to my knowledge they are. Thus we have a bootable OS to some extent,
>correct?
>
>>
>> This seems doable, but the power requirements for a cd might be higher
>> then a hdd, not to mention the biggest drawback being you have to
>> constantly burn cds to add apps, services, etc. Not to mention the fact
>
>True, but the idea of a customizable OS sounds a bit thrilling :)
>
>> that you can't store any new data on your wearable (unless you have some
>> cleaver memory backup power scheme). Seems like this would only be
>useful
>> with a fast network connection.
>
>Right, but I wonder how hard it would be to trick a computer into thinking
>a chunk of ram was drive E: (or whatever)?
>
>>
>> If you could combine a cd bootable os, and a 3" cdrom drive that might
>> make a great wearable.
>
>Does the Sony MD support data writing/reading?
>
>Ciao'
>Mike
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