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Article #59Re: DOOM - READ - RAMDRIVE.SYS
From: Chris "Strunoph" Norman
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 19:10
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 19:10
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In article <CJ8FGo.FLA@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Doug Marien <slug@landshark.micro.umn.edu> wrote:
>Have you ever wanted to speed up DOOM??? Then try this:
>
>If you have enough memory, like 16meg or more, load RAMDRIVE.SYS
>in your CONFIG.SYS file with the options:
>
>device=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 12288 512 1024
>
A far more intelligent option is to install a disk cache.
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