RAM disk.

[Greg Pasquariello]

In article <14884 at hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (Jim
Burns) writes:

> > 5. TSR's
> 
> > The MS/DOS community developed these out of utter desparation due
to
> > their single-tasking O/S and the way memory management was
> > brain-damaged from the start. See "job control". Of no merit.
> 
> Wrong - unless you are using a windowing environment, and there are
still
> plenty of glass tube unices out there. And even then, few windowing
> environments I've worked in can match the one or two keystroke
responsive
> - ness of a good TSR. (Granted, what you're talking about *does* apply
to
> the filter and os extension types of TSRs.)
>

A windowing environment has nothing to do with it.  Like the man said,
see "job control", which allows me to put applications in the the
background,
or suspend them, until I am ready to use them again.  At which point I
can invoke them very quickly and easily.

> P.S. - Since we don't get the alt. groups here, I don't know if that
> (alt.religion.computers) is a real group, or just your idea of a
joke,
> but thanx - my mailer choked on it the first time around.
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