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  Memphis produces a brilliant alternative to Acorn's RAM FS by providing a dynamically resizeable RAM disc is the system sprite area (that is, the RAM disc is not, unlike RAM FS, of a fixed size when being used, but expands as more files are added to it). I use it all the time for archiving, and when I want a fast-access filing system, since it, like RAM FS, is far faster than hard/floppy drives. 
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  Problems? Well, it was designed for RISC OS 2, which has now been declared obsolete, so it still uses the RO2 style display for free space (size can be altered using the System Sprite Area in the Task Manager), and I am told that it doesn't work on the RISC PC. However, the version I am using is rather old, and, for all I know, it may have been updated with a version that doesn't have these problems. It is still useable, and highly reccommended, under RISC OS 3.1, which I use.
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<b>Update:</b> I have just been told that a new version of Memphis has appeared, which is RISC-PC compatable. A copy can be found on the Datafile's PD-CD 5.
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Author: Brian Brunswick<br>
Status: Freeware<br>
Availability: I should think that all major PD libraries would have a copy, and the Datafile's <a href="../Commercial/PDCD5">PD-CD 5</a>.
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