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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
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Date: 1 Nov 90 03:55:00 GMT
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Re: Here is why you need VM (virtual memory) on your macintosh

I forgot to mention: some symbolic programming languages make good use
of virtual memory to handle allocation/deallocation/garbage collection
of memory.  When Apple releases system 7.0, if they do it right it
will export an interface that lets user-level programs control the
paging of their own partition.  Then I expect some developers might
modify their applications, such as expert systems shells, LISPs,
Prolog interpreters, maybe even neural net simulators, to depend on
VM.

In any cose, these applications might be useless in a machine without
VM support.