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Re: Editing Files larger than available memory

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From: Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meye...
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 17:23
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In article <6754@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
   OK, you implement it however you want. I'll fix it when you release the
   source. Limiting the memory usage is even useful for pre-VM UNIX systems
   (like the ones we have 400 users on at Ferranti).

That's the best option. Doing a second memory manager may be more work
than is worth it to you; that was my decision. In any case, be sure to
send the fixed back so I can consider incorporating them. I may not,
but I definitely won't if I don't see them.

I will conceede that I haven't decided how to paging files to disk
will be triggered yet. I may well wind up with something that allows
memory use to be set at start-up time. However, that's _not_ a
priority. As I said, the reason for adding that kind of paging is to
allow editing of files larger than memory. Extra overhead to constrain
the editor isn't on the list.

	<mike
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From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Editing Files larger than available memory
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Date: 9 Oct 90 17:23:03 GMT
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