Re: the Multics from the black lagoon :-)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 22:34

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In article <KHB.90Feb8102112@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:
> I beg to differ with you on this. mmap() is a huge win...

The problem, I believe, is not that MULTICS provided mapped files. The
problem is that they didn't provide any other form of file, and that
mapped files in MULTICS were limited in size to a segment... though
later multisegment files became available.

How did MULTICS handle objects that didn't look like large arrays:
terminals, tapes, and other things that fit well into the UNIX streams
model?
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: the Multics from the black lagoon :-)
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Date: 8 Feb 90 22:34:52 GMT
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