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Article #5439Re: Files larger than available memory.
From: Jeff Martens
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 17:41
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 17:41
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In article <1990Sep23.174736.16118@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: >In article <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes: >>the discussion re: Virtual Memory/MMU/Protection reminds me of a tangentially >>related issue. Some criticism of Amiga software (such as word processors) is >>related to the inability to deal with files/data larger than available memory. [ ... ] >It can be done. [ ... ] CP/M software, e.g., Wordstar, has been handling files bigger than memory (typically 64k) for years. Basically, you have to handle paging yourself, which is inconvenient but not all that difficult. -- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Dan Quayle on education: "We're going to have the best educated American people in the world." I wonder if he was also considering S. and C. Americans, as well as Canadians and Mexicans?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory. Message-ID: <83986@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 17:41:20 GMT References: <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <1990Sep23.174736.16118@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens <martens@cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 20