Re: RAM disk icon

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:08:04 EST

At 11:39 PM 3/18/96, Susy Dalton wrote:
>A "RAM disk" icon appeared on my desktop (Mac 5200CD). What is that
>telling me?? Help!!!!

It's an option in the Memory control panel. What it does is make what
appears to be a really fast hard drive out of RAM memory. You'll probably
want to turn it off as it will eat up your available RAM, but it can be
handy to use for high speed operations.

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