[comp.windows.ms] Swapping *to* RAM?

ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch) (04/20/91)

In <8621@crash.cts.com> viki@crash.cts.com (Victoria Harkey) writes:


>Regarding the swapfile in windows on a diskless workstation. Set up a RAM
>drive for each workstation. Use the own cpu's RAM for swapping... very
>fast.

Am I missing something here?  Swapping is a technique to make disk act
like ram.  Why make a ram act like disk, just so you can make it act
like ram again?
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