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From: collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (Doug Collinge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: preloading programs
Message-ID: <390@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 06:32:52 GMT
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Reply-To: collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (Doug Collinge)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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Someone said that OS9 68k is capable of "preloading" commands; that is,
loading some programs into memory and executing them there when invoked
rather than loading them from disk.  This seems to be yet another
excellent idea incorporated in OS9 that no-one else seems to have
thought of.  I have always hated RAMdisks on the conceptual ground that
any program loaded from RAMdisk occupies twice the memory that it needs
- half for the executing image and half for the copy in the RAMdisk.
(Yes, of course I use one...)  Temporary files in RAMdisk are also
stupid (the filesystem should handle this need in its buffering scheme)
but less so, since only the data in the buffers is duplicated.
Preloading commands eliminates the major stupidity and seems extremely easy
to implement in any shell.  Which brings me to my question:

How difficult would it be to hack this into Gulaam?  Perhaps pm would
be kind enough to consider this in a future release.  Or maybe he has a
hard disk and doesn't care, in which case he might allow someone else
to put it in for the rest of us.  Maybe someone could point out this
note to him if he doesn't see it.

I love Gulaam and use it all the time.

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		Doug Collinge
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