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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: preloading programs
Message-ID: <1779@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 03:34:03 GMT
References: <8804141742.AA01455@decwrl.dec.com> <693@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1630@alliant.Alliant.COM> <390@uvicctr.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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In article <390@uvicctr.UUCP> collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (Doug Collinge) writes:
>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. 

OS/9 uses "modules" in RAM.
If you envoke a program, it is loaded to the RAM as a module and gets
execuded.
The "load" system call loads a module from disk and it stays there.
If you envoke a module already in RAM is is just executed, not loaded:
thats all.

Remember: OS/9 is no virtual memory system. 

hase
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