SuperSpeed Software Announces RamDisk XP for AMD Athlon XP Platforms.Business/Technology Editors SUDBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2001 SuperSpeed Software, Inc. today announced the release of SuperSpeed's RamDisk XP software for all AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon(TM) XP platforms running the Home or Professional editions of Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . RamDisk XP dramatically improves the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output performance of all applications running on Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. . In tests run on the AMD Athlon platform with the Intel Iometer benchmark, RamDisk XP shows more than 30 times performance improvement over a standard Microsoft cached disk partition See partition. on the Windows XP operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . That translates into up to 10 times improvement in overall application speed for most applications running on AMD Athlon Windows XP systems. For applications that are pure I/O this means up to a 30 times improvement in application speed. The combination of the Athlon processor and RamDisk XP equals extreme performance. "We're pleased that SuperSpeed has developed this software to complement AMD Athlon XP A family of Pentium-compatible CPU chips from AMD introduced in 2001. Departing from the traditional MHz designation, Athlon XP chips use model numbers that combine clock speed and architectural features into a numerical rating. processor-based systems with the Windows XP operating system," said Lee Little, director of Field Marketing at AMD. "Input/output performance is critical to the overall performance of a system." A typical user will see dramatic performance improvements in their application speeds, because the disk subsystem is the slowest part of the computer and it slows everything down. In order to access data stored on a disk drive, the user has to wait for the slow mechanical speed of the disk subsystem. All users need to do to improve application speed is install their applications on RamDisk XP. It looks just like a real drive, except that it is pure software. The software takes less than five minutes to install. In order to see good results a user should have 256 MB of RAM or more, with a minimum of 96MB required. Fortunately, RAM is relatively inexpensive. Windows XP supports up to 4GB of RAM. Users can install their favorite applications on RamDisk XP and run them at blistering speed with no changes to the applications themselves. RamDisk XP features a patented automatic backup system Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage to the hard drive. This system is completely transparent to the user. When the system starts up it restores the contents of the RAM drive to its original state when the system was shut down. The user can backup the contents of the drive automatically at any time. For more information visit www.SuperSpeed.com. Pricing: $49.95 for HomeEdition compatible version, and $99.95 for Professional Edition of Windows XP-compatible version. |
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