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Subject: Re: Does anybody no anything about UNIX on an Atari ST
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Date: 6 Jun 90 22:09:49 GMT
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In article <90150.161022SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Kevin Maguire) writes:
>space 128K for big (?) processes). The ST is only limited by memory size.
>OF course it's nice to have 4M as minix has no virtual memory, but

Disclaimer: I do not claim to know much about the ST architecture but...


   I was wondering if there are ANY (preferably transparent) programs out that
will enable an ST to use its hard-drive as a source of virtual-memory:  As long
as the software you are using doesn't need to skip all over memory while it is
running, this sure would be a nice way to give yourself an 8-meg machine (4meg
chipped + swap 6meg or so [leaving 2meg for system,etc]) or some other exotic
memory size by utilizing the memory storage most people already have.  Or even 
give someone with a 1meg-machine 4meg of useable memory.  Of course by using 
certain replacement policies you can speed up what could be excruciatingly
slow, but for some programs like word processors, I can't see that it would 
slow it down that much if most of what is in memory (pages of information) were
read into the ST in bursts.

   Would this be so impossible?  Or have I been hitting the caffeine just a
little too much ...:)

>
>Kevin Maguire
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-Mike Baffoni

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