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> >I normally run Arachne (and everything else for that matter) on my '486 where
> >Arachne has to run on a ramdisk to keep my blood pressure down.
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> Is that because, without the ramdisk, Arachne gives the hard drive too hard a
> drive, threatening to cause its demise? I don't like the sound Arachne makes
> when running on my second fixed disk. How big does the ramdisk have to be, and
> what must be copied thereto?
Hi Thomas;
I use the ramdisk because it is much too slow otherwise.
A 3 to 3.5 Mb ramdisk is useable if load it, delete all .gifs, all wiz stuff
and anything else you are sure you will never use. Create \TEMP on ramdisk,
move all mail and download and CACHE to the harddisk. Delete all the now
unused directories. Copy command.com to the ramdisk.
Use Cache2TEMP in your .cfg and specify all paths explicitly. Zip it up.
It is possible to use a ramdisk as small as 2.3Mb but you must be creative.
At this extreme I not only exclude all files that are not absolutely necessary
but I also use Stacker to compress it.
> Is the clumsy segmented RAM architecture unique to Intel/compatible?
Yes.
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