{"id":5207,"date":"2010-02-12T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2010-02-12T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T02:55:14","slug":"the-lost-art-of-the-ramdisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/the-lost-art-of-the-ramdisk\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost art of the ramdisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5208\" title=\"amiga RAM disk\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RAMScreenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"69\" \/>You don&#8217;t hear anything about ramdisks these days. What with intelligent OS file cacheing, we don&#8217;t really need them. Back in Amiga days, though, the RAM: drive was blisteringly fast. You&#8217;d put your small files there, and you could move them around really quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Third-party ram disk drivers added features like the ability to survive a reset, and be more dynamic than C-A&#8217;s offering. The ASDG Dynamic Ram Disk was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.cs.wisc.edu\/~perryk\/\">Perry Kivolowitz<\/a>, who went on to win an Oscar for digital rendering techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t hear anything about ramdisks these days. What with intelligent OS file cacheing, we don&#8217;t really need them. Back in Amiga days, though, the RAM: drive was blisteringly fast. You&#8217;d put your small files there, and you could move them around really quickly. Third-party ram disk drivers added features like the ability to survive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1912,2089,2090],"class_list":["post-5207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-amiga","tag-ram","tag-ramdisk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1lZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}