PDP-11/23 deskside machine

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Mar 23 23:33:43 2000

>Virtual memory - yes! It grabs RAM if you have enough (which you do not)
>and the VM.SYS device driver makes VM: look like a disk drive. If you had
>4 MBytes of memory and used 2 MBytes for VM:, that would give you a device
>of 4096 blocks.

Jerome,
I think he's talking about the opposite of what you mean. You mean using
RAM as a disk, right? I believe he means using disk for RAM. Which is
something I personally try to avoid like the plague!

                        Zane

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