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From: ram@shukra.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mach features? (Re: Paging and swapping to a removable disk?)
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Date: 20 Oct 88 18:30:14 GMT
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In article <3352@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>In article <3924@encore.UUCP> bzs@xenna (Barry Shein) writes:
>>>Does Mach (on a NeXT, at any rate) do memory swapping to disk?
>>>If so, what does it use for the swap area at times when the laser disk is out?
>>I'll stick my neck out and say that I don't believe that you'll be
>>able to remove the optical disk if that's what you're paging and
>>swapping to 
>

    What if you can swap over the network?
    I thought that was possible in Mach. 
    change your swap area to the big server's filesystem that is
    remote mounted and continue to swap your disks as you please.

    Renu Raman