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  Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
 
Perhaps you are talking about a SCSI RAM drive ? this is a SCSI DVD RAM Recorder .....I have never heard of SCSI RAM as in SCSI accessed RAM Memory modules.. but I have seen SCSI DVD RAM drives ....They use thier own version of recording media .... (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
 
(...) of In the olden days before processors could address massive amounts of RAM, you could get cards and external peripherals that contained dynamic volatile RAM on a SCSI interface that would behave like very fast disk. It was used for video (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
 
Quantum still makes these, and calls them Solid State Disks. They have a bad size/capacity ratio, but phenomenal access times and reads-per-second rates. (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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