Well, this note I had was from 1990 and I have no idea where it came from.
Looks like something I downloaded off a bulletin board. I obviously never
used it because it sounded wierd (supposed the whole log is there in RAM
without HD storage and ya lose power.) I think it must have stuck in my
head, or I read someplace else about someone attempting to put the
master.dta file in a RAM disk.
Anyway, all the hoopla started off about speeding up a 486, and Dave
answered that one. I always ran smartdrive on my 386 and 486.
Thanks Rich for your insightful comments!
Tom
At 10:24 AM 12/10/1999 -0500, Tom Ogburn wrote:
>Dave, you must be right. I looked back thru all of my old notes and
>couldn't find a thing. However, I did come across a reference to someone
>who was experimenting using a RAMDRIVE to store his CT log files on a 386SX
>to speed up dupe checking!!!! Sounds very dangerous to me. Must have been
>so wierd that it somehow stuck down in my brain cell cobwebs.
CT keeps the entire log in RAM memory. Except for writing out each new QSO
to the disk, and checking the super check partial database, there is no
need for CT to otherwise access the disk. Putting the log in a RAMDRIVE
would serve no useful purpose.
73 - Jim AD1C
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