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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Swapping *to* RAM?
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Date: 20 Apr 91 03:40:17 GMT
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In <8621@crash.cts.com> viki@crash.cts.com (Victoria Harkey) writes:


>Regarding the swapfile in windows on a diskless workstation. Set up a RAM
>drive for each workstation. Use the own cpu's RAM for swapping... very
>fast.

Am I missing something here?  Swapping is a technique to make disk act
like ram.  Why make a ram act like disk, just so you can make it act
like ram again?
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