From: pechter@gmail.com (William Pechter)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:10:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5799234F.80108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NymVJ=fxcwBUk3ObU_iwc+FieOXLpnt-d=PJwJuzdAeg@mail.gmail.com>
Clem Cole wrote:
> That is exactly how its was done. In fact, DEC made a Solid State
> Disk (out of RAM) just for UNIX that people used to use for /tmp.
>
Are you referring to the slick little ML11-A (I think it was an -A when
I installed it at NY Telephone on
West Street, next to the World Trade Center...
I seem to remember it being used as an RS04 (or similar) fixed head disk
replacement for swap -- but
it could've been used for temp.
Funny seeing a fault light on a Massbus controller'd box of mostly MK11
memory.
IIRC it had write-lock as well.
Neat idea and I wish someone would come up with a really large SSD with
a writelock for archival storage
of my stuff. No head crashes and if I could disable the possibility of
accidental writing...
Bill
--
Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-27 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-27 20:28 Mark Longridge
2016-07-27 20:31 ` William Pechter
2016-07-27 20:57 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:01 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:10 ` William Pechter [this message]
2016-07-28 0:49 ` Clem cole
2016-07-28 1:03 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 11:23 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 12:18 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-28 13:57 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 7:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 11:41 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-30 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 23:50 ` scj
2016-08-01 11:36 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-30 14:15 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 15:30 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 1:03 ` [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Clem cole
2016-07-28 23:16 ` [TUHS] environments/universes (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Sven Mascheck
2016-07-29 3:05 ` arnold
2016-07-29 14:14 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-29 13:55 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 20:41 [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Norman Wilson
2016-07-27 21:18 Norman Wilson
2016-07-28 0:47 ` Clem cole
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