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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: RAM disk.
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Date: 12 Oct 90 08:38:47 GMT
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Supposing that RAM disk is a wonderful thing, I don't see why it
requires any change to UNIX. Couldn't the RAM used for this be
treated as a device and mapped into the filesystem in the same way
as any other block device? I should think that it would just be a matter
of writing an appropriate driver.