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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: idea for non-cached mem above 16M (was Which motherboard?)
- Message-ID: <id.G5VV.8F7@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec11.150512.21282@texhrc.uucp> <17543@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Dec14.231244.22459@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:56:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.231244.22459@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- > I haven't tried anything like that, and frankly, I don't want to.
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- Be better off writing a driver that treated it as a big RAM disk, and then
- you could use it for primary swap space, a fast /tmp file system, or if you
- run CNEWS just symlink /usr/spool/news/in.coming to point there...
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