Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Memory mapped files (Re: DMA in VM) Message-ID: <4657@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Dec 89 15:05:47 GMT References: <14059@grebyn.com> <2054@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <14060@grebyn.com> <4643@sugar.hackercorp.com> <556@xdos.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 In article <556@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: > 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 haven't heard that. I know SunOS has a 'mapped file' capability, but that's only for bitmapped devices. Mapped files are in Mach, though. > the "it's in there!" release of Unix :-) Yeh, and the Sytsem-V.4/Mach merge is the "we get to break everything" release? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "Really, a video game is nothing more than a Skinner box." -- Peter Merel