21 Mar
2005
21 Mar
'05
9:20 a.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
Well, depending on the age of the hardware, it might be
best to just
replace the 'swap' partition/area of the hard drive being emulated with
modern, cheap DRAM memory. The swap area doesn't have to be
non-volatile, after all.
Why not just get more ram and forget swap space. :)
I think swap space needs to be non volitile on the system, the PDP/8
comes to mind where you have to swap memory around. Also some
operations may need to be continued after a power falure rather than
restarted like calculating PI to xxx decimal places.
This depends, of course, on it being possible to
specify where swap is
located, and not to just blindly use a flash drive as a plug-in HD
replacement.
Ben alias woodelf