ram disk?

From: Khalid Schofield (oums0246_at_crow.linux.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:59:05 +0100

Hi,
I've seen this on google

              mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
              chown root:disk /dev/ram

if one can make /dev/ram and access it as a block device can one make a
ram disk or is this still impossible under irix?

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