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Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs by mastazi on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @06:44PM (#17192547)
> but the most commonly used would basically be allocating a chunk of memory and assigning it a file name so you could re-open it next time.

So the PC platform finally caught up with Amiga's RAM disk ;-)

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Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs by Jupe on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:08PM (#17192681)
I think you meant RAD: disk... RAM disks don't survive a warm boot, but RAD did (IIRC). But, even RAD: didn't survive a cold boot (where this Optane memory does)

Still, I do fondly remember my Amiga days!

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