Silicon Disk System
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The Silicon Disk System was the first commercially available RAM disk for microcomputers[1].
It was written by Jerry Karlin in 1979/80. Karlin was joined by Peter Cheesewright and their company Microcosm Research Ltd marketed the product for a number of years. The product was available as a standalone and was also bundled with a number of different microcomputers and RAM-board products. The product was later sold by Microcosm Ltd. Initially, it was available for the CP/M operating system. Versions for the MP/M, CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 operating systems followed. Following the launch of the IBM PC, a version for the MS-DOS and PC-DOS operating systems was produced.
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Cheesewright, Microcomputers Come of Age. The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 32(10):932–933, October 1981. doi:10.2307/2581237
