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Re: RAM Control Panel: What is the RAM CACHE????????
- Subject: Re: RAM Control Panel: What is the RAM CACHE????????
- From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
- Date: 1998/02/19
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <6cgbhu$3q6m$2@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com>
Sandy <compuser@prodigy.net> wrote:
>I believe this is the control panel supplied by Apple on the System 6
>disks.
>
>On this control panel, you have 2 slide controls, 1 is RAM disk size, and
>the other is RAM CACHE size.
>
>What is the RAM CACHE???? What does it do?
It is a disk cache. I think it stores blocks from a disk drive for faster
access.
If you use floppy disks, set this cache to at least 32K or the floppy use will
be very slow.