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Andrew Stephenson

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Re: Any news of AOS-5.1 on ASUS PN52 mini-pc or Dell Latitude 3301 notebook?
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2023, 04:18:52 pm »
Hi Andrew,
There are several Mother boards available depending on what size unit you would like to build - ASRock B450M Pro4 is a good board , mine is coupled with a Ryzen 3 3200G processor. It can have 4 SATA 3 disks but if you use the M2-2 you lose one of the SATA sockets.

If you are interested you can download the manual from ASRock site.  The wired network socket works but I can't say anything about sound because I don't use it on the computers.

Thanks.  It occurs to me that, realistically, there may not be that many m/boards we'd want to run AOS on.  Lenovo and ASUS may be It, because building good hardware will be trickier at today's speeds.  Back in the dawn days of (semiconductor) PCs, we goshed and wowed at the whizzy clocking of CPUs.  Eg: Intel 8080, 800 kHz; Zilog  / Mostek Z80, 1-4 MHz; Hitachi CMOS Z80, 6MHz...  No idea about others, like 6502 and 6800 -- assume "slow as cold treacle" alongside multi-gigahertz jobs in which signals travel via what are more like transmission lines, where precise dimensions and materials matter.  With folks needing reliable functionality, newbie manufacturers are best left to sell their stuff to users who can abide beginner design work.  No?

I'll see what I can make of the various helpful pointers you-all have supplied.

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Re: Any news of AOS-5.1 on ASUS PN52 mini-pc or Dell Latitude 3301 notebook?
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2023, 05:57:49 pm »
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....Or maybe a solution would be to scan dates/times of RAM Disk files at intervals and save to (eg) SSD any that become more than a certain amount newer than a reference date/time.  (Hope that makes sense.) ...
I don't think so. Write speed to our RAM drive is slower than to one of my SSDs. Even when formated with JFS. YMMV.

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Re: Any news of AOS-5.1 on ASUS PN52 mini-pc or Dell Latitude 3301 notebook?
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2023, 10:20:25 am »
Write speed to our RAM drive is slower than to one of my SSDs. Even when formated with JFS.
It can be switched to ancient strat1 mode by adding /1 to the HD4DISK.ADD command line. BUT JFS and FAT32 do not support this mode and old (eCS) versions of FAT32.IFS just hang on it. So it`s only for HPFS (or FAT16), but on the other hand it will be fast. Suitable for the swap file, actually.

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Re: Any news of AOS-5.1 on ASUS PN52 mini-pc or Dell Latitude 3301 notebook?
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2023, 11:38:37 am »
Write speed to our RAM drive is slower than to one of my SSDs. Even when formated with JFS.
It can be switched to ancient strat1 mode by adding /1 to the HD4DISK.ADD command line. BUT JFS and FAT32 do not support this mode and old (eCS) versions of FAT32.IFS just hang on it. So it`s only for HPFS (or FAT16), but on the other hand it will be fast. Suitable for the swap file, actually.
I have hpfs ram drive. Browser cache of Seamonkey and Dooble are on ram disk. I tried /1 switch and browsing feels really much faster.