Specifications

Chopter
2
Memory Exponsion
Cord
os
RAM Disk
Many
applications
designed especially
for
the
Apple
IIGS
take
advan-
tage of
the extra
memory
on a
memory
expansion
card automatically.
In
some
grses
you
can't
use the application-or
can't
take advantzge
of all
the application's
features-without adding
a
memory expansion
card.
If
you got
the card
specifically to
use those
kinds
of
applications,
you
can
stop
reading right here.
Another way
you
c:tn use the
memory on the
card
is
as a
RAM disk.
This
requires
a
litde more
effort
on
your part,
but
it's
worth the
effort
if
you
want to speed up access
to applications that
aren't
designed to use the extra
memory on the card automatically.
Just
keep in mind that if
you
use
memory on the card
as
a
RAM disk, that
memory isn't
available
for
use by
applications designed to
use the
memory
automatically.
To
use the
memory
on the
memory expansion card as
a
RAM
disk,
you
need
to
know how
to
copy applications to the
RAM disk and
how
to start them up
from
there.
You may also want to
know how to save
documents to the
RAM
disk.
This
is not
a substinrte
for
saving docu-
ments
on a disk, because the
memory
on the card
is
temporary
just
like
the
RAM that's
built
into
your
computer.
But
saving documents
to
the RAM on the
memory
expansion
card can be
useful
if
you
have
more
than one application
that uses the same
data or
if
you
refer to
certain
data
regularly.