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From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory.
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.152246.599@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:22:46 GMT
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In article <1990Sep23.174736.16118@lavaca.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
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> The "problem" here is that disk speed affects text scrolling and searching
> speed.  If you "^F" (page forward in vi), then the next page has to
> be read from disk and then updated from the in-memory list of changes
> to that page (if any changes exist).

Of course, virtual memory is no different in this regard...

                                   - Neil

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