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Article #5424Re: Files larger than available memory.
From: d6b
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 14:16
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 14:16
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In article <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes: > Have developers dealt with this problem? If so how are they doing it? If not > is it because they are waiting for VM? Perhaps before we start another big discussion of this stuff I'd like to question whether VM (virtual memory, not to be confused with virtual machine or whatever) in an editor (to use your example) is needed. Right now it's reasonably affordable to have a 9-megabyte Amiga. Do you edit really BIG files? :-) The largest file I've ever dealt with was 1.4 megabytes, and I thought that was pretty big. It fits nicely in my 3 megabytes. So, it's not clear that having some sort of VM built into an editor is terribly important. Whether or not having VM in the OS is desirable is another matter. I don't need it myself, but I suppose there are those that do (who are you??) -- Dan Babcock
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!psuecl.bitnet!d6b From: d6b@psuecl.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory. Message-ID: <1990Sep24.101616.20657@psuecl.bitnet> Date: 24 Sep 90 14:16:15 GMT References: <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University Lines: 17