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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: idea for non-cached mem above 16M (was Which motherboard?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.231353.7736@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec11.150512.21282@texhrc.uucp> <17543@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Dec14.231244.22459@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <id.G5VV.8F7@ferranti.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:13:53 GMT
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- In <id.G5VV.8F7@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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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.
-
- >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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- This is sort of what OS/2 does with it -- it uses it for swap, I
- think.
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