Couldn't find anything about this elsewhere in the forums, so... With computers that can support 4, 8, 16 GB or more of RAM these days, what prevents Windows from just being able to run ENTIRELY in RAM? I have messed around with Puppy Linux which has that option and it is unbelievable how fast it can be! When you run the OS entirely within RAM you can't believe how fast a computer can be. Every click is instantaneous. You don't realize how slow hard disks are until you try it this way. Then when you install Puppy on your hard drive you feel like it's running like any other OS, which now feels agonizingly s l o w ! The advantages of having an OS running this fast for pro audio apps is obvious, and with RAM being as cheap as it is, I'd be willing to cough up $100 or so to gain that kind of speed. So my question is: if Puppy Linux can do it, why not Windows? Besides the obvious aspects of needing 64-bit hardware and OS, what are the technical factors that prevent this from being a possibility, if any? I'd consider having a dedicated computer for studio work running Puppy and Reaper with WINE as a workaround but the headache of getting all the plug-ins installed just seems like too much of a headache, even with all the newer solutions for that sort of thing. Any thoughts?
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RE: Running Windows entirely in RAM
