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From: rouellet@crhc.uiuc.edu (Roland G. Ouellette)
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Subject: VM used for filesystems (was: Let's pretend)
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Date: 21 Dec 90 10:57:32 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jpk@ingres.com's message of 20 Dec 90 22:59:17 GMT

> Including output that you must guarantee has been written to
> nonvolatile store?  In other words, output that survives
> operating system crashes?

If I'm not mistaken Multics laid to rest all kinds of problems of
using VM fro a filesystem including this one.
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