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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory
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Date: 3 May 91 23:45:03 GMT
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>that works in a stock GS.  If the person working on the virtual memory
>system could send me a note, perhaps we could help each other.
>
>
>Roy
>rbannon@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu

I am the person working on it, off and on. I call it ViM, it currently exists
as a PIF, but I am working on making it into a CDEV (not overly successfully 
Imight add). So far  Ihave tested with a number of programs and although it
bombs very few, Orca/Prizm being the main example, it does not give any
immediate benefit to existing applications. Apparently most programmers prefer
to keep their data in a single monolithic structure, my assumption was that
they would break it up into 64k or smaller chunks because of the 65816
segmented architecture. Bad assumption on my part.

Anyhow the basic premise seems to work well, but user friendly it is not.

I have not yet figured oput how to send mail beyond my local BBS, so you will
have to e-mail me first.

Also if anyone can give me a few pointers (or handles  :)  on how to handle a
CDEV message I would much appreciate it. Assembly code would be nice.


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