RAM disk.

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <143190 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at slovax.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>In article <6167 at titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>>If you use elaborated and complicated memory disk, it can be only as
>>slow as ordinary disk, but not faster.
>
>Bullsh*t.  Tmpfs is orders of magnitude faster than a disk.  

I suspect this was a typo - if tmpfs can only be as slow, and not
any faster, then it must be the same speed.

As for 5MB/sec transfer limitations - does the SS1 have a DMA
setup that can handle memory to memory transfers?  I would hope
that the memory subsystem can handle more than 5MB/sec ...
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