18 Sep
2007
18 Sep
'07
2:42 p.m.
Subject: Re: Handheld VAX and System/370.
From: Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:06 +0100 (BST)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
<<SNIP>>
>> Just wish the thing had a CF slot and thus could take a Microdrive, in
>> order that I wouldn't have to worry about frequent writes to flash storage.
>> Speaking of which does anyone know if VMS can live without page and swap
>> files? Somehow it doesn't seem likely... Trying to work out how I could
>> make it do as little writes as possible to the FS, e.g. by disabling opcom,
>> auditing and so on. And is there a 'noatime' mount option equivalent for
>> ODS?
VMS cannot live without page and swap. What you can do is maximize the memory
it has to reduces the need to psge/swap.
> Wasn't there someone making an outboard
adapter for SD that holds a CF? I
> have something similar that holds a CF and plugs into a SmartMedia slot.
can't help on that.
Allison