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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Prestoserve for FreeBSD?
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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...

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