12 Jun
1998
12 Jun
'98
12:19 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com> wrote:
something you can get get around, even with any ordinary sort of
ObCC: I just noticed /dev/drum on a Dec here. Now I *know* there
is not a drum on this thing, so this must be a holdover from some
earlier implementation of some Unix. True? Were filesystems on
drums managed the same as those on disks? I don't see any reason
why they wouldn't be, offhand. But I thought drums died out before
Unix appeared. Does anyone still have a functional magnetic drum
memory? That would be one _awesome_ peripheral. :-)
Bill.
On this ISP there's a /dev/drum
BSD/OS shell.monmouth.com 3.1 BSDI BSD/OS 3.1 Kernel #2: Mon Jun 1 23:03:46
$ls -l /dev/drum
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 4,0,0 Jan 29 1997 /dev/drum
I believe it's in most BSD Unixes and tied to the swapping/paging system.
Bill
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