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From: boerner@ut-emx.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Quick Directories/Better Sorts
Message-ID: <40122@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 24 Nov 90 21:44:04 GMT
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In article <19739@oolong.la.locus.com> jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) writes:
[...]
>after your program is running.   Of course, you are still limited
>to the 640K size unless you use Turbo 5.5 with VROOMM (ViRtual
>Object-Oriented Memory Manager) which will allow you to use extended
>memory or disk.  Otherwise, you have to do the actual disk stuff your
>self and it can get pretty messy.  Good idea: Pick up a copy of the
[...]

Based on what I've read in the TC++ manual, VROOM is really just
a slick overlay manager similar to what is found on Turbo Pascal.
You mark certain .objs as swappable and then you don't worry about
it.  The overlay manager detects when a function which is not in
memory is called and swaps it in.  It doesn't really give you
virtual memory.  After all the hoopla Borland gave about VROOM, I
was very disappointed when I was reading the manuals and the
description sounded like something out of my TP 5.0 manual.  'Course,
I'd like to be wrong on this point.

Brendan
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