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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: Prestoserve for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <nbOKfw1@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <nbg0Z9M@quack.kfu.com> <4b4hp7$scl@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 21:36:57 UTC Lines: 15 dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu writes: > Would SRAM PCMCIA work ? Perhaps it is too slow. PCMCIA 1Mb goes for >about $100, and the PCMCIA interface, about $200, so for about $300, you would >have 1Mb of battery-backed SRAM available. That sounds like a winner to me, except that I can just see someone ejecting a card filled with dirty buffers. I'm afraid the driver would have to do something drastic under the circumstances... -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "Dear Sexy Knickers. I don't half fancy N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | you. Meet me at the lift at 5:30 and +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | we'll get it together." URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | -- Mr. Lucas