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- From: dkoski@noao.edu (David Koski)
- Subject: Re: Ramdisk coming for NeXT (and InstantTeX woes)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.025337.28167@noao.edu>
- Keywords: Funky Stuff
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
- References: <1992Aug10.114453.13836@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Aug10.124010.21440@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug13.103230.6707@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:53:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.103230.6707@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl) writes:
- >some people have asked me how the mentioned patch to get more than 16 buffers
- >is done. Well, hackers, first I should note that /sdmach is _not_ stripped
- >(sic!). Need I say more? The rest is up to you, happy disassembling...
-
- You can also use the nbuf=500 (or whatever) with your boot command.
-
- bsd nbuf=500
-
- should boot with 500 buffers. No need to patch the kernel. Of course you
- have to type this in every time you boot...
-
- David Koski
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