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From: jsloan@wright.UUCP (John Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Paging and swapping to a removable disk?
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Date: 20 Oct 88 13:13:26 GMT
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From article <3924@encore.UUCP>, by bzs@xenna (Barry Shein):
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>>Does Mach (on a NeXT, at any rate) do memory swapping to disk?
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> It would be interesting to hear what, if anything, NeXT has done in
> regards to this. My guess is nothing (ie. to change optical disks you
> bring the system down, change, reboot, unless you have a winch to run
	:

I'm sure I've read a quote from Jobs _somewhere_ saying that he thought
it was unfortunate that they couldn't figure out a way to change
optical disks on the primary drive without rebooting the machine, but
that was just the price you had to pay for demand paging.  I think it
may have been in the Byte BIX article posted to the net by several
people.

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