3 Feb
2001
3 Feb
'01
2:25 p.m.
Actually you've got me thinking there. Considering
that RAM is dirt
cheap these days. I'm wondering what it would take to build a RL02 drive
that is actually a RAM disk (of course you'd be able to fit several disks
on one stick of RAM), and what kind of performance you'd get. Off course
I'm not a hardware type, so I don't know how hard that would be.
Hmmm... don't the MS630/MS650 boards simply get power from the bus,
and memory transactions are over the PMI cable? If so, then what
about some sort of Qbus option which looks like a disk, but has a
connector on it so that it connects to the MS6xx board... ready-made
memory farm which could be used as a disk... (And don't some of the
boards come in 16mb and 32mb flavors?)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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