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From: name@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (tony cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory INIT
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Date: 15 Jan 89 15:44:06 GMT
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According to my calculations 2^24 is 16 Megabytes. So why is the virtual
memory INIT limited to just 8Mb? Then the next question is: Why stop at
2^24? Why can't the virtual memory be as big as the disk? If no program
uses more than 2Mb then you could have 40 such programs on the disk with
each program being swapped into the 4MB of ram whenever it is it's turn
to get some CPU time.
If it were possible to have, say, 16 MB of virtual memory on the Mac I guess
most people would have trouble using it all. What would you do with all that
much memory? I guess you could use it as a RAM disk!?!

Tony Cooper