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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix EMS Ramdisk
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Date: 20 Sep 88 00:11:49 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
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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)

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