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Article #5638Re: Files larger than available memory.
From: Lou Cavallo
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 13:26
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 13:26
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G'day,
EH> In article <523@public.BTR.COM>, eeh@public.BTR.COM
EH> (Eduardo E. Horvath eeh@btr.com) writes:
LC> In article <1089@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
LC> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
Thanks Eduardo for the useful discussion of VM. I've saved the article.
EH> Is S/W VM really worth while?
I just thought I'd re-emphasize to everyone (and no-one in particular)
that I'm not promoting s/w VM in general. I'd just like to see memory
paging/swapping/whatever_anyone_wants_to_call_it:-) available for data
handling where the data is larger than allocatable memory.
Kent Dolan put this quite nicely in a recent posting in this newsgroup.
By the way...
Jim Wright I think in comp.sys.amiga was (may still be) asking for help
to deal with his (pre-processed!) datafiles of up to 30 Mbytes in size!
From a marketing perspective this type of s/w VM could be a help to the
prospective Amiga power user/buyer (eg scientific user, heavy DTP type).
I am still hoping someone can positively confirm whether Excellence 2.0
does do s/w VM ... {I'll try to dig up the magazine I read that in :-(}.
EH> Eduardo Horvath eeh@btr.com
yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.
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