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From: DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET.UUCP
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Subject: The WHY of a RAM disk
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Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 12:08:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 12:08:00 1987
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Being the person who offered to distribute it, I suppose I should respond
to:
 
> Excuse me, but I didn't realize there was anyone out there running a Vax on
> floppy disks.  W H Y would anyone want a RAM disk on a Vax? ... you should
> increase your cache ... If your problem is in BACKUP, try using ... If this
> isn't the problem, please try and describe it more clearly, and maybe someone
> on INFO-VAX can help.
>                ----Russ
>                    russ@sp@ohio-state.ARPA
>                    The Ohio State University
>                    Department of Electrical Engineering
 
Russ,
 
I agree wholeheartedly.  At this point I consider it only a curiosity which
VAXinated types (e.g. people addicted to this VAXcine) would like to explore.
While I have no doubt that there is probably a reasonable (or maybe
unreasonable but at least fun) application for such a beast out there (which is
what I find really neat about working in this business), I would hope that
nobody is so innocent as to start putting a DBMS on it.
 
The fact that someone at DEC took the time to implement it and that it
is used in STABACKIT.COM is, I think, an indication that there is a niche
for it.
 
A colleague supplied me with the routines that I have *not* tested but when
the discussion started I offered to distribute to anyone interested.
 
To those folks who requested the routines:  I'll be mailing them out tonight
or during the day on the 14th.
 
 
Denis W. Haskin                              Manager, Technical Services
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