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.
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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