RAM disk.

[Tony Li]

In article <14884 at hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:

    Wrong - unless you are using a windowing environment, and there are still
    plenty of glass tube unices out there. And even then, few windowing
    environments I've worked in can match the one or two keystroke responsive
    - ness of a good TSR. (Granted, what you're talking about *does* apply to
    the filter and os extension types of TSRs.)
    
This could be easily satisfied by implementing a different user
interface to job control.  Or even by programmable function keys.  For
example, you might bind one key to be: "^Z%emacs".  Poof.  

The difficulty is doing this in a consistent and portable way...

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