Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk Message-ID: <17013@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: 13 Dec 87 17:24:09 GMT References: <712@qetzal.UUCP> <585@nitrex.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 7 Say what? On PDP-11's UNIBUS attached disks can not possilby have 17,000 times the transfer rate of conventional disks. The whole bandwidth of the bus is 2.2MB per second in the best of cases. Most drives even in days gone by could approach a 1MB/s. What you don't have is the seek latency. -Ron