Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 03/12/2014 04:24 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Hey, I remember working on a PC that actually used hardware-level EMS
> - not the virtualized compatibility stuff.  A utility could be used to
> set up a disk cache in EMS if you didn't need it for applications
> (since most applications didn't know anything about it)...

I remember doing that.  ramdisk.sys was it, I think?  Then there was the 
Borland "SideKick" TSR that could use that RAM.  And the Quarterdeck 
QEMM and DESKView and good old DR DOS.  Ha, I have my DR DOS 5.0 manual 
in my hand right now (hard to type like that:-).  I *loved* DESKView and 
DR DOS.
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS

Topical and typical, "Oops my 20TB RAID ate my data": 
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/1253218/how-do-you-backup-20tb-of-data

Later,
JP
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