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From: csl@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Lennox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2)
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Date: 10 May 91 18:03:59 GMT
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In article <1991May10.024853.19971@serval.net.wsu.edu> wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes:
>
>I think I read that the reason Emacs had not been ported to OS/2 was because 
>it seemed too hard to deal with segments.
>

Now here's something I just don't understand about this segmentation
controversy.  MS-DOS lets me have as huge a ram disk as I want, so why
can't I avoid the segemntation problem altogether without going to OS/2
by simply mapping all the memory my program needs onto a ram disk file?


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				Be seeing you...

					Craig.