> > > The idea: create some driver that uses the RAM of the
> > > video-card as a block-device! That way you can use the
> > > fast-accessible videocard memory as a (for example)
> > > swap-drive (will outperfrom any harddisk!) or a temporary-
> > > file "disk" or whatsoever. Shouldn't be too difficult to
> > > implement.
There was a DOS TSR which would allow you to do this many years
ago. You could use CGA graphics mode (with a VGA card) while you made use of
64K of the VGA card's video ram... (so you ended up with 640k+64K = 768K of
usable "real" dos memory...)
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Audin Malmin - amalmin@halcyon.com
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