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Article #27784Re: 16 Mbyte RAMdisk...
From: ljdickey
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1987 14:41
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1987 14:41
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In article <8707250333.AA08699@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes: > ... there is ONE problem for which Mr. Stone's idea would be a darn good >solution: speeding up the access time in a hard disk. ... > ... once the transfer to RAM was complete, the RAMdisk would >take over realtime processing, giving disk access times in the microseconds >instead of milliseconds. .. >The BACKUP process would lag realtime by a few tens of milliseconds to a few >seconds, perhaps. Great idea. Fantastic. This sounds a lot like the idea of CACHE memory to me. I want it. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.UUCP ljdickey%water@waterloo.CSNET ljdickey%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA ljdickey@watdcs.BITNET UUCP: ...!watmath!water!ljdickey
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 16 Mbyte RAMdisk... Message-ID: <1062@water.waterloo.edu> Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 10:41:17 EDT Article-I.D.: water.1062 Posted: Wed Jul 29 10:41:17 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 01:08:50 EDT References: <8707250333.AA08699@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Distribution: world Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17