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Article #21036Virtual Memory on MultiTos
From: Kosmatos Odisseas
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:39
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....) ------- topic 2 ------- 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? -- '""''"''"""'''"''"''"""'''""'''"""'''"'""''""''''""''""''""'""" Bill Gates: "''''" Odisseas Kosmatos "'"'' kosmatoo@jsp.umontreal.ca "'"''" My Idol. Please "''"''. ... . . . ... . .. . . . . .. ... .. . . . . ."''"'' send me $8000US ""'"''''""'"'' W E A R E T H E R O B O T S '"""'"""'"'"'" A.S.A.P. Thanks
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!CC.UMontreal.CA!kosmatoo From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st 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 Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews) Organization: Universite de Montreal Lines: 37