blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) (12/09/87)
In article <213@unicom.UUCP> physh@unicom.UUCP (Jon 'Quality in - Quantity out' Foreman) writes: > A friend of mine had an idea for a product which was a hugh >array of cheap slow memory which emulated a disk drive, and even would >have come in a disk drive case. The object here was that there would >be no latency, and you could still hang it on a DMA disk controller. >Could this be what you're really looking for? Several companies already make these. We are currently testing one (megaram?) with an esmd interface on one of our Primes. Transfer time is the same as a real disk, where it wins is seek time. As others have said, using such a device for swaping is mainly a win if you are already at maximum memory on your system. Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu blarson@skat.usc.edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson Prime mailing list: info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu oberon!fns1!info-prime-request