Re: AE RAMKEEPER?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <59btxd480g.fsf@pravda.cc.gatech.edu>,
 <markd@remove-me.cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Hi - I'm wondering what the AE RAMKEEPER board does?  

   According to some, based on its excessive size and metal edges near
the metal insides of the GS top, it's a great firestarter. :) The
official purpose of it, though, it to connect up multiple ram cards at
once (which kills DMA to them for a performance loss with HDs), and
battery-backup part of ram for an optional 'ROM' disk. [Kinda like a
RAM disk, but doesn't disappear when the GS's power goes out]

Nathan Mates
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