Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Minix EMS Ramdisk Message-ID: <1365@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 20 Sep 88 00:11:49 GMT Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 25 One item of extension to Minix which seems to me terribly obvious but I have not seen anything about is a ramdisk implementation based on expanded memory. There are a large number of PC's around with these memory expansion boards which seem the obvious answer to much of the memory crowding and temporary space difficulties that have been the object of complaints. As an example, I have an AST Premium board in an IBM PC with floppies which would allow for the equivalent of two 360K floppies worth of system residence and, with the piggyback expansion, a full megabyte of /tmp while leaving 640K for the active memory and two complete floppies for removable data etc. Such an program should make systems with only floppies as removable storage quite effective for many applications. Has anyone done such an implementation? Thos Sumner (thos@cca.ucsf.edu) BITNET: thos@ucsfcca (The I.G.) (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos) OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include