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Article #12805Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 02:24
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 02:24
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In article <3856@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > Bummer. You can't do mapped files without an MMU. That means mapped files > would be not work with non-MMU Amigas. OK, you *could* do it if you didn't > demand page the file in on non-MMU machines but rather copied the whole > thing in on first open and then wrote the whole thing out on last close and > maybe at checkpoint intervals or whatever. It's sick, I know. Actually VMS allows you to specify this sort of mapped file as well as the more normal sort, so I guess there MUST be some use for it. I mean, DEC wouldn't put something in nobody would ever use, now would they? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U`
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request Message-ID: <3859@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 May 89 02:24:59 GMT References: <8905200449.AA20664@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3856@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14