archiving data, was RE: Media Longitevity/Care

[woodelf]

Scott Stevens wrote:

>Well, depending on the age of the hardware, it might be best to just
>replace the 'swap' partition/area of the hard drive being emulated with
>modern, cheap DRAM memory.  The swap area doesn't have to be
>non-volatile, after all.
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Why not just get more ram and forget swap space. :) 
I think swap space needs to be non volitile on the system, the PDP/8
comes to mind where you have to swap memory around. Also some
operations may need to be continued after a power falure rather than
restarted like calculating PI to xxx decimal places.

>This depends, of course, on it being possible to specify where swap is
>located, and not to just blindly use a flash drive as a plug-in HD
>replacement.
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Ben alias woodelf