Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RS6000
Message-ID: <5185@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:50:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.214122.9506@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Jan11.064733.28335@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Bingo. The OS wants to load the entire file into memory before working with
>it. If the file is larger than memory will allow it will crash the machine!

*Load* it into memory (i.e., read every single byte into physical
memory), or *map* it into memory?  The two are inequivalent....