In a message dated 1/8/2008 10:00:11 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The way I remember it, we could ask for more LCS than main, but it was much slower. You're right. I remembered it backwards. LCS was slower than normal storage but also much less expensive. And, as Lynn Wheeler mentioned, that same data center had an extremely clever local modification that used LCS as an I/O buffer, intercepted I/O requests, and thus acted like today's VLF. Its author told me that he supported everything except ISAM because he could never find all the SIO instructions in ISAM. I also worked at another shop with a large amount of Ampex LCS, and they had frequent hardware-caused system crashes. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN
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