Path: utzoo!hoptoad!mejac!decwrl!labrea!polya!ali
From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: How about some details?
Keywords: MACH
Message-ID: <4486@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Oct 88 15:23:22 GMT
References: <243@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <243@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (B.SZABLAK) writes:
>I'd be interested in knowing if the optical disk is used for swapping/paging.
>If not then I presume all processes are locked in memory ...
>
Yes, you can. It's slower than paging to a SCSI, but it works fine.
I've been using an 8MB system with a single optical as my boot/paging 
device for sometime now.

Ali Ozer