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From: guy@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Berentsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIXPC: Can I have a RAM disk?
Summary: DOS 73?
Message-ID: <8244@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 89 15:24:55 GMT
References: <729@ivucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Berentsen,G.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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One of the Unix-pcs I use regularly has a DOS 73 Board that I very seldom use
(no it's not for sale).

If I ever get around to it I wanted to write a driver to
use the DOS 73 board as a mountable ram disk. 

Re: Ram Disk / Swapping (Paging) - Can't you can lock the ram disk in memory?
( using plock(2)  ? )
In any case, the unix pc does demand paging on an as needed basis. 
If you have more memory than you normaly use, (with 2+ meg on a single 
user system I rarely do any paging)
a ram disk should be a big performance boost.(?)