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Article #2468Re: DMA in VM
From: Doug Merritt
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 16:27
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 16:27
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In article <4643@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>This was a feature of Multics some, oh, 20 years ago now. ALL files were mapped
>into memory... paged to and from the physical disk on demand.
As you probably know, other systems since then have also used it. And I've
heard that Unix 5.4 will support this feature, too. (I guess this is
the "it's in there!" release of Unix :-)
Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: DMA in VM Message-ID: <556@xdos.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 89 16:27:37 GMT References: <14059@grebyn.com> <2054@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <14060@grebyn.com> <4643@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 11