System and method for utilizing the memory of a portable compute

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition

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711118, 709227, G06F 1200, G06F 1300

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061548103

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for increasing the speed and resource utilization of a computer system in which a personal computer uses a portable computer as an extra hard disk. While the portable computer is in SCSI target mode, the unused memory of the portable computer is converted into a disk cache for the hard disk of the portable computer. This enables the portable computer to perform as a very fast disk.

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