| * arraybolt3 wonders how practical it would be to implement an SSD or SD card with very low-speed, low-quality SRAM and a small battery and use that as storage that doesn't wear out very easy | 01:48 | |
| JanC | stuff like that has existed since the 1980s at least ;) | 01:50 |
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| JanC | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive#Dedicated_hardware_RAM_drives | 01:54 |
| sarnold | the one that I knew that you could actually buy .. https://ddrdrive.com/x1_product_brief.pdf *four gigabytes* | 01:56 |
| JanC | oh, but I remember ones from the 1980s that were 1 or 2 MiB | 01:56 |
| sarnold | *nod* | 01:56 |
| JanC | one for the ZX Spectrum even | 01:56 |
| sarnold | lol | 01:56 |
| JanC | they would have ads in some Speccy magazines | 01:57 |
| JanC | must have been a lot faster (and less noisy) than the cassette tapes I used with it :P | 01:58 |
| JanC | "2MB RAM CARD for PC" / "Includes Ramdisk/Print Spooler Software" https://books.google.be/books/content?id=my8EAAAAMBAJ&hl=nl&pg=PA56&img=1&zoom=3&sig=ACfU3U0bAYe2muiGlGb-59FqZL6rYOLUYg&w=1280 | 02:07 |
| JanC | $399 | 02:07 |
| daftykins | definitely had a RAM disk on the RISC OS running Acorn Archimedes i had in school | 02:10 |
| daftykins | even though i was 2 when i came out, somehow they lasted in schools | 02:10 |
| JanC | some computers would have more RAM than the processor/OS could address directly & those were used as RAM disks too sometimes | 02:11 |
| JanC | I could do something like that on my IBM XT compatible too (which had 1 MiB RAM, but DOS could famously only use 640 KiB of it...) | 02:13 |
| JanC | so I had a 128 KiB RAM disk on it :) | 02:13 |
| JanC | which I used to run COMMAND.COM from | 02:14 |
| daftykins | \o/ | 02:14 |
| daftykins | blazing fast! | 02:14 |
| JanC | no need to swap floppies then | 02:14 |
| daftykins | :D | 02:14 |
| JanC | otherwise I got the dreaded "please insert DOS disk" after running an application from another floppy | 02:15 |
| JanC | as DOS removed (most of) COMMAND.COM from RAM to have more to run an application... | 02:16 |
| arraybolt3 | I remember fighting with that a bit at one point :P | 02:17 |
| arraybolt3 | I'm not old enough to have ever used DOS as a regular PC, but I did play with it quite a bit just because I liked old stuff. | 02:17 |
| JanC | I even ran Windows 2.x on that machine ;) | 02:18 |
| JanC | running Windows from a DD 720K floppy, imagine that :) | 02:20 |
| arraybolt3 | reminds me of a meme I saw where someone was showing the floppy disk version of Windows 8.1 Pro. There were like two giant cardboard boxes with four massive plastic sleeves each, each of which contained a massive stack of floppies. The first one was labeled "Disk 1 of 2876" or something insane like that | 02:21 |
| JanC | https://archive.org/details/windows_2.03_english_with_ms-dos_6.22_eng if you ever wanna try... | 02:23 |
| JanC | you can probably run it from freedos | 02:23 |
| JanC | DOS 6.22 they have on that page is like 6× larger than Windows 2.0x | 02:24 |
| * daftykins pats originals | 02:25 | |
| arraybolt3 | I've installed Win3.1 in a VM before. It was really less than fun not because of the OS being unstable, but because of my screen being so small :P | 02:25 |
| arraybolt3 | (I mean, it was fun to install, less than fun to use) | 02:26 |
| sarnold | 640x480 viewed on a 15" screen vs in a 1.5" dialog box.. | 02:26 |
| arraybolt3 | exactly | 02:26 |
| arraybolt3 | only I managed to get mine up to a whopping 800x600 :D I don't think I even managed 1024x768. | 02:27 |
| JanC | it could do higher resolutions :) | 02:27 |
| JanC | need a proper driver though | 02:27 |
| arraybolt3 | don't think I had a proper QEMU driver | 02:28 |
| JanC | there might be VBE (VESA) drivers for Windows 3.1, but not for 2.0x :) | 02:28 |
| JanC | and it should be possible to have a BIOS with VBE for Qemu I'm sure | 02:29 |
| JanC | as VBE just provided a more or less standardised way to switch to higher resolutions that otherwise behaved more or less like (S)VGA | 02:30 |
| JanC | oh... http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=5408 | 02:34 |
| lotuspsychje | good morning | 02:36 |
| Paris | What tintin said to the smurfette? <tintin> are you gay? | 02:36 |
| Paris | wrong win. | 02:37 |
| Paris | lol hi. | 02:37 |
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