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From: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Question on Sys 7 VM
Message-ID: <1991May2.155515.17085@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 May 91 15:55:15 GMT
References: <1991May2.063441.17428@cs.UAlberta.CA>
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In article <1991May2.063441.17428@cs.UAlberta.CA> paullu@cs.UAlberta.CA (Paul
Lu) writes:
>
>Can somebody clarify if I _must_ allocate swap space while
>using virtual memory under System 7.0?
>
>That is to say, what if I'd rather use the VM to reduce
>fragmentation instead of for paged/swapped memory.  Can
>be done?
>
I asked the same question about a year ago, and the answer is System 7 does not
do away with fragmentation because all apps are in the same address space.
There is therefore no point in using VM without swap space (I don't know if you
can actualy do it though).

Philip Machanick