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From: hutch@net1.ucsd.edu (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <4992@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: 30 May 88 18:42:59 GMT
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In <547@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
>In <134@ssdis.UUCP>, gsarff@ssdis.UUCP (gary sarff) writes:
>>In <4928@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, hutch@net1.ucsd.edu (Jim Hutchison) writes:
<Hmmm, they trimmed me completely>
> The amiga does scatter loading of executable images into its free RAM.
>True.

Actually, you don't have to scatter load.  It probably helps things fit
better if you can place hunks here there and everywhere, but you don't
have to.  It's an option on the Manx C compiler, one I have yet to
excercise.

Other than nasty check-pointing techinques which dump from .begin to .end
to a file (I have never tried this on an Amiga, just a Vax & a Sun), what
algorithms are impaired by a scattered memory configuration?

>These aren't opinions, they are facts!
Heavy.

    Jim Hutchison   		UUCP:	{dcdwest,ucbvax}!cs!net1!hutch
		    		ARPA:	Hutch@net1.ucsd.edu
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