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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Let's pretend
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.225917.23965@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 90 22:59:17 GMT
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From article <1990Dec19.060521.16051@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>,
 by johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine):
> With a
> page table per segment, you actually could map each open file to a segment
> (a 4GB file is still pretty big) and merge all I/O with virtual memory.

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

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com