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AMAX

    12-Mar-90 21:02:31
Sb: #93860-AMAX
Fm: Ray Lewis 76057,467
To: Brian Warner 71076,1114
Brian: How much ram do you have? I have 5 megs, and set up 2 of them to be a RAM disk that masquerades as a very fast hard drive so far as AMAX is concerned. The other three megs are used by AMAX for the MAC system. I boot from disk, create the RAM "hard drive", copy the system disk into that drive, and then reboot from the RAM "hd". The second boot is almost instantaneous (I have a 68020, and two of the megs are 32 bits). Anyway, once I've done this, I also normally put my applications into the RAM "hd" and just use the MAC floppy drive for data. While I'd much rather have an actual HD hooked up to this thing, the above works very well, and is super fast. AMAX uses all my ram, my 68020, my mmu, and my 6881 math chip. Everything runs VERY quickly. Ray Lewis