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Article #21113Re: unconventional architectures
From: Paul Neubauer
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 14:21
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 14:21
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In article <40284@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Multics and Burroughs segments, however, don't get in the way in that
>manner, unless you want to have a single object that doesn't fit in a
>segment (in the case of Multics, the max size is 1MB). [...]
>
>[...] In addition, when files are
>mapped into the address space (which is the only way to access files)
>they are assigned unique segments, and applications may allocate
Does this mean that the maximum file size is 1MB? How difficult does this
make it to deal with, e.g., large databases?
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Paul Neubauer neubauer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!neubauer From: neubauer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Paul Neubauer) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: unconventional architectures Message-ID: <7135@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 8 May 89 14:21:35 GMT References: <112@centaure.UUCP> <422@unicads.UUCP> <11579@cgl.ucsf.EDU> <89May6.165030edt.10782@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> <1989May6.234007.23517@utzoo.uucp> <89May7.001514edt.39763@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <40284@think.UUCP> Reply-To: neubauer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Paul Neubauer) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 15