[rescue] s/390 primary/secondary, multi-level, real/extended, swap, etc.

[Dave McGuire]

On February 6, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   Secondary storage on an S/390 (and going back to the 370
> > architecture I believe) is actually *memory*, not disk.
> 
> Would this be at all equivilent to using a ramdisk (the hardware kinda,
> not the software hacks) as /tmp and as the swap partition?

  I don't know what the programming model looks like for secondary
storage...I think it's just addressed differently.  I'm getting close
to getting my P/390 running, so I will try to learn more about this
soon.

  IBM mainframe architecture is *fascinating*.

      -Dave

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