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From: jason@violet.Berkeley.EDU (Jason Venner)
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Subject: Re: RAM disk as /dev/swap
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 12:55:50 EST
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It is my recollection (from the good old days of real machines with 64
or 128kb address spaces, and maybe 4meg of memory) that the real win
came with having /tmp as ram, as everything wrote it's tmp files there
to save memory (vi, ed, cc, mail, troff,....), and with this as a ram
disk, you really won.

Jason