I seem to recall "Woz" saying that he had done tests on whether Ram
Disks really speeded things up and coming to the conclusion that they
didn't in the real-world tests he did.
Maybe I misread the posting, in which case I apologise in advance,
but this may be the case.
...... I found the posting courtesy of Eudora Pro:
At 5:28 pm -0800 29/10/98, Steve Wozniak wrote:
>Also, you might rethink the desire to use flash RAM as real RAM. It
>operates closer to floppy speed than HD speed. Plus, last year, I ran tests
>on 3 computers and each time Apple's Ram Disk (real RAM) was slower than
>the HD. It didn't matter whether I just put the app on this Ram Disk or the
>entire system. This was on Desktop Macs as well as PowerBooks.
>
>Steve Wozniak
>
>Could you explain a little further? Are you copying part of the System
>folder into the RAM disk? This sounds like it should speed up the notebook
>some. Any comments?
>
>
>Mike Jarjoura
>
iain bruce
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