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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 question (was >8Meg Memory Before System 7)
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Date: 21 Nov 90 17:07:07 GMT
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In article <1829trottiers@yvax.byu.edu> trottiers@yvax.byu.edu writes:
>JM> Does anyone know if system 7 will support virtual memory on removable
>JM> hard disks like Syquests or optical/floptical drives?
>JM>
>JM> Inquiring minds would like to know.
>
>I believe that system 7 looks on the volume that contains your system folder
>for disk space for virtual memory.  So, if you can boot from your drive, you
>should be able to use it for virtual memory.
>

  Actually, you can specify which volume you want the backing store (or
VM storage, or whatever it's being called) to be located through the Memory
control panel.  However, I don't know if it will list ejectable volumes.

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