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Might as well use regular ram which is better than ssd and you're back to square one
by homero 8y ago
Might as well use regular ram which is better than ssd and you're back to square one
- krylon 8y agoIBM's mainframes were in a weird place in the 1990s, because they had a 31-bit virtual address space, i.e. 2 GiB, but the physical machines could be equipped with a lot more RAM. One way to utilize this surplus memory was to use it as a RAM-disk and turn it into a swap device. It was stop gap measure before their CPUs went 64-bit, but at the time it was kind of a clever solution.