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Article #2734Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2)
From: Craig Lennox
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 18:03
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 18:03
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In article <1991May10.024853.19971@serval.net.wsu.edu> wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes: > >I think I read that the reason Emacs had not been ported to OS/2 was because >it seemed too hard to deal with segments. > Now here's something I just don't understand about this segmentation controversy. MS-DOS lets me have as huge a ram disk as I want, so why can't I avoid the segemntation problem altogether without going to OS/2 by simply mapping all the memory my program needs onto a ram disk file? -- Be seeing you... Craig.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!ai-lab!churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu!csl From: csl@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Lennox) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2) Message-ID: <15769@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 10 May 91 18:03:59 GMT References: <940@slammer.UUCP> <3888@d75.UUCP> <1991May10.024853.19971@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 17