RAM disk.

[Dick Karpinski]

In article <1990Sep18.044625.12606 at mlb.semi.harris.com> del at thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) writes:
>In article <758 at sci34hub.UUCP> gary at sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>>I think you're forgetting drive latency, here. A RAM disc will respond
>>immediately, ... RAM disc with a SCSI ... for my swap device.
>
>Well, so would I, but if I could afford enough memory to replace my
>swap device with a RAM disk, I'd rather just use that memory as main
>memory and not bother with paging/swapping anymore.

I want the RAM disk (who makes it?) 'cause the cheap RAM is $50/MB 
while IBM RAM for the 6000 is $600/MB.  I don't know that the RAM disk
is priced right but there is sure some room for that posibility.

Dick