Handheld VAX and System/370.

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Handheld VAX and System/370.
>   From: Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org>
>   Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:06 +0100 (BST)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
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>>> Just wish the thing had a CF slot and thus could take a Microdrive, in 
>>> order that I wouldn't have to worry about frequent writes to flash storage. 
>>> Speaking of which does anyone know if VMS can live without page and swap 
>>> files? Somehow it doesn't seem likely... Trying to work out how I could 
>>> make it do as little writes as possible to the FS, e.g. by disabling opcom, 
>>> auditing and so on. And is there a 'noatime' mount option equivalent for 
>>> ODS?

VMS cannot live without page and swap.  What you can do is maximize the memory
it has to reduces the need to psge/swap.

>> Wasn't there someone making an outboard adapter for SD that holds a CF?  I 
>> have something similar that holds a CF and plugs into a SmartMedia slot.

can't help on that.

Allison