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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Virtual memory or swapping, was Re: SCSI disk drives under MINIX
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.224953.7915@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 90 22:49:53 GMT
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Organization: Dakota State University
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In <34957@nigel.ee.udel.edu> MDOELL%DOSUNI1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Magnus Doell) writes:

>On Mon, 29 Oct 90 16:37:10 GMT Erach Irani said:
>> [ scsi question deleted ]

>You need the following things for porting GNUemacs etc.:
>3. At least 4M RAM (better 8) as MINIX doesn't swap and GNUemacs
>   needs a lot of memory for itself and for all the files you are
>   working on with this beast.

Is anyone with SPARC, 68030, or 80[34]86 chips working on adding
demand paged virtual memory to MINIX?  Lacking that, has anyone
successfully put process swapping in?

I hate being constrained by physical memory :-(
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