Re: W2K RAMlimits

["dickbo" <dickbo@btopenworld.com>]

Photoshop will not allow it and neither I suspect will Adobe because there
are many millions of users who do not or cannot install volume RAM.

Mind you with a nifty hard drive it is hardly worth the bother anyway

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wingo" <jimw203@mindspring.com>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: W2K RAMlimits


> In the vein of pure speculation: might it be possible, if one had
literally
> gigs of RAM, to set up a RAM disk to be used as the PS scratch disk? Would
> this not be the equivalent to working intirely in RAM on large files?
>
> Jim Wingo
>
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> On 6/13/2002 at 8:36 PM Laurie Solomon wrote:
>
> >>it means you can work on those 550Mb medium format scans without endless
> disk  writes
> >
> >If you are using Photoshop, I doubt it since Photoshop still relies on
> >virtual memory from scratch disks requiring disk writes and reads no
> matter
> >how much actual physical RAM you have on the system.  It keeps multiple
> >copies of the file in its various versions on the scratch disk not RAM
for
> >multiple undos, for the history palette, and for the revert function for
> >starters. It is only possibily the actual working desktop appearing copy
> >that it keeps in actual physical RAM.
>
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