Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!WAKS.RUTGERS.EDU!hamm From: hamm@WAKS.RUTGERS.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: RAM disk for VAXen Message-ID: <8702140643.AA08138@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 22:41:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8702140643.AA08138 Posted: Fri Feb 13 22:41:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Feb-87 23:14:28 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "Greg Hamm" Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 22 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa > 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? ... >>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. We tried this out for fun once, and put a few small files in it that were referenced *thousands* of times per day. It was kinda like installing images, but for data files. It was certainly fast! :-) We always wondered what would happen if you put *lots* of memory in a system...set up the RAM disk...and then defined secondary page & swap files on it. Would the VAX disappear into hyperspace? Greg hamm@biovax.bitnet hamm@waks.rutgers.edu ------