Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!tim
From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: When will MacOS get virtual memory?
Message-ID: <5538@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 5 Oct 88 04:36:51 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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The quote is "Virtual memory doesn't REQUIRE hardware memory management."

You can fake it in software.  That requires a special compiler, so existing
programs can't use it (and probably can't run in the new environment).  It's
also pretty slow.  A loss all around.  If you're going to fake virtual memory,
it's best to do it explicitly, and that's what the Resource Manager is for.
(See the new tech note on "Managerial Abuse".)
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"I wrapped a newspaper round my head, so I'd look like I was deep.
 I said some mumbo-jumbos then: I told him he was going to sleep.
 I robbed his ring, his pocket watch, and everything else I found.
 I had that sucker hypnotized; he didn't even make a sound!"
    - Frank Zappa, "Kozmik Debris"