Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!wmcs.UUCP!csrobe From: csrobe@wmcs.UUCP (Chip Roberson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 16 Meg Ram Disk Message-ID: <8707250357.AA12024@wmcs.uucp> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 23:57:11 EDT Article-I.D.: wmcs.8707250357.AA12024 Posted: Fri Jul 24 23:57:11 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 06:38:54 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: ihnp4!alberta!calgary!stone@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Glen Stone) >Subject: 16 Meg Ram Disk > >Right now development is concentrated on the ST SCSI. The ram disk >will be a box that hooks into the hard drive port...yes yes, you >can then plug your hard drives in. The ram disk will appear simply >as a hard disk. I'm developing a chip that will handle all the logic >for the Atari interface and controlling the memory. The whole concept >of this thing is to be "CHEAP". Ideally, the ram disk will be a box >to which you add your favorite dynamic memory chips, 256k, 1Meg, ???? Does one hook their hard disk into your box? Does it require software or is it a total hardware device? (hope, hope)! I thought the 256k and 1Meg chips had different pin-outs and sizes! Is this true? If so, how are you getting around these physical differences? If this is cheap enough, it could become a great plus for UNIX lovers. Having a completely external ram disk (i.e. it doesn't take up internal ram) is perfect for swap space, /tmp, and /bin. Something like this could help turn an ST into a (diskless, er, ram disk) workstation. Now if I only had a TT (file server), a nice big *HIGH HI-RES* mono screen, and X windows, and Sun *might* have some low end competition. What kind of work has been done on Ethernet iterfaces to an ST. My ST could sure use an expansion bus. -chip -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chip Roberson ARPANET: csrobe@icase.arpa 1105 London Company Way BITNET: $csrobe@wmmvs.bitnet Williamsburg, VA 23185 UUCP: ...!seismo!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe --------------------------------------------------------------------