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Subject: Re: 16 Mbyte RAMdisk...
Message-ID: <1062@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 10:41:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 10:41:17 1987
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In article <8707250333.AA08699@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes:
> ...  there is ONE problem for which Mr. Stone's idea would be a darn good
>solution:  speeding up the access time in a hard disk.  ...
>  ...   once the transfer to RAM was complete, the RAMdisk would
>take over realtime processing, giving disk access times in the microseconds
>instead of milliseconds.  ..
>The BACKUP process would lag realtime by a few tens of milliseconds to a few
>seconds, perhaps.  

Great idea.  Fantastic.   This sounds a lot like the idea of CACHE memory
to me.  I want it.

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