jack@citcom.UUCP (Jack Waugh) (08/11/87)
In article <312@l5comp.UUCP> (Re: Glossary), scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) writes: > 3. Good ol' ram:. > Inside this handler we have a FULL > file system! There's code in here to > open/close/create/delete files. Very interesting. This suggests it wouldn't be that hard to provide a file cache. Then, the user/programmer wouldn't have to decide what files to put in "RAM:"; the cache would. Such a cache could usefully allow arbitrary mapping of cache directories to real disk directories, sort of like UN*X "mount". Is it practical to write a handler without either an assembler or a BCPL compiler, just C?