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Virtual Memory on MultiTos

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From: Kosmatos Odisseas
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:39
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I was wondering whether there are any plans on supporting virtual memory
with MultiTos. Virtual Memory seems like a great feature. Example, with
v.m. one will never have to worry about their terminal program's capture
buffer getting full. Now, I have a feeling MultiTos does not yet support
v.m. because nobody seems to have mentioned it as one of its features.
So I ask: Will a 3rd party external program to allow virtual memory be
just as transparent as if it was directly built-in to MultiTos?

(rhetorical question: How hard could it be to support V.M.?)

(At our university, we have tons of 16Mhz,68020-based workstations for the
 first-to-third year students that use virtual memory THROUGH A NETWORK,
 [meaning no local hard disk, a virual memory page swap has to be done 
  through a busy network] and run quite well. You NEVER (ever) have to
 worry about running out of memory. In fact, the machines only have
 8 megs of ram yet you can run programs and reserve 16 megs of ram for
 that program alone....)

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Another topic I was wondering about was whether MiNT (and thus MultiTos)
does the following: When a program is loaded, say program X. If the program
is loaded again in another window / by another user / by a background shell
script, will the operating system notice that it is already loaded and just
use the copy in memory (but having a local stack and program pointers)
or will it load the program all over again (thus wasting precious primary
memory)?

------- topic 3 -------

If 100 Falcons were shipped to developpers in Germany, direct from Taiwan,
can we take that as a sign that the Factories are ready for Full production?
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From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
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Subject: Virtual Memory on MultiTos
Summary: Yes? No? Also other topic.
Message-ID: <1992Dec16.043917.1193@cc.umontreal.ca>
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:39:17 GMT
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