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In article <18660@cup.portal.com> Greg_Mark_Finnegan@cup.portal.com writes:
>Jonathan Garber's quote ("...there's only one way to do virtual memory...")
>bothers me a bit.  The Connectix VM scheme limits you to 8Meg period. Apple's
>method lets you go to 14Meg by mucking with NuBus (in 24 bit mode) and gobs
>more in 32 bit mode.
>
>Sounds like 2 ways to do virtual memory to me (and probably a judge).
>
>Greg.

No, No, No, No, No.   You are confusing 2 issues.  Apples VM scheme allows the
full Operating system's Memory range to be handled, as does Virtual's.  It's
just that at the moment the OS allows only 8 Megs.  If apple had VM now it 
would have the same constraints as Connectix's.  It's just that Apple is wait-
ing to do VM until thay also support full Memory Range.  Connectix said all
along that as soon as the OS supports more than 8 Megs they will
release a version of virtual that does.

Note that this has nothing to do with the merits of Garber's statement (that is
my point) and I have little opinion on that matter.  I suspect that the key
to the truth of that statement lies in what someone recently quoted Garber as
saying, that there is only one way "without a full OS rewrite"; which is exact-
ly what Apple is doing.

Josh
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