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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: Ramdisk coming for NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.231705.25701@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:17:05 GMT
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- Actually, what would be nice would be a hardware ram disk.
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- Take a reasonable scsi interface, and plug a zillion sockets on it. Set it up
- with various optional cards.
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- SCSI speeds are slow compared to memory. Then we could go looting through all
- those dead PC's, and haul out that 250 microsecond ram, and start stuffing
- boards.
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- I have seen ads in Digital Review for RAM disks for Vaxen. They are actually
- slower for sustained througput, but a factor of 3 faster for queued I/O.
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