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Subject: Submission for mod-computers-vax
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Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 13:05:47 EST
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From: ed@qtc.UUCP (Ed Lisle)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Re: RAM disks on VAX????
Summary: Why should we use RAM disks on VMS
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Date: 13 Feb 87 18:05:46 GMT
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  Well,  I'm not triing to defend the bonfide RAM-Disk user community,  but
at our shop we had the oppertunity to develop a write-once-read-many (WORM
of all things) ACP for an optical disk system.  To test the ACP on a real
optical platter would be expensive and slow.  At QTC, we came up with a
WORM-RAM-Disk (sounds wonderful) which did well to serve as a test bed for
our software.

  I'm sure there are other situations out there where only system managers
could dream of :-)

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