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From: d6b@psuecl.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory.
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.101616.20657@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 24 Sep 90 14:16:15 GMT
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Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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In article <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
> Have developers dealt with this problem? If so how are they doing it?  If not
> is it because they are waiting for VM?

Perhaps before we start another big discussion of this stuff I'd like to
question whether VM (virtual memory, not to be confused with virtual
machine or whatever) in an editor (to use your example) is needed. Right now
it's reasonably affordable to have a 9-megabyte Amiga. Do you edit really BIG
files? :-)

The largest file I've ever dealt with was 1.4 megabytes, and I thought that
was pretty big. It fits nicely in my 3 megabytes. So, it's not clear that
having some sort of VM built into an editor is terribly important. Whether or
not having VM in the OS is desirable is another matter. I don't need it
myself, but I suppose there are those that do (who are you??)

-- Dan Babcock