Article in '' Practical Computing'' magazine from 1982 reviewing Silicon Disk System and MicroCache. The Silicon Disk System was the first commercially available RAM disk for microcomputers. It was written by Jerry Karlin in 1979/80. Karlin was joined by Peter Cheesewright, and their company Microcosm Research Ltd. marketed the product for a number of years. The product was available as a standalone and also bundled with a number of different microcomputers and RAM-board products. Later, the Silicon Disk System was sold by

Microcosm Ltd Microcosm Ltd is a UK company established in 1979. Its early claims to fame included Silicon Disk System in 1981 and Microcache (the world's first disk cache for microcomputers) in 1982. Since 1989, it has concentrated on computer security, f ...

. Initially, it was available for the CP/M operating system. Versions for the MP/M,

CP/M-86 CP/M-86 was a version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Research als ...

, and

MP/M-86 MP/M (Multi-Programming Monitor Control Program) is a discontinued multi-user version of the CP/M operating system, created by Digital Research developer Tom Rolander in 1979. It allowed multiple users to connect to a single computer, each u ...

operating systems followed. Following the launch of the IBM PC, a version for the MS-DOS and PC DOS operating systems was produced.

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