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From: 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea)
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Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
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Date: 18 May 89 03:18:52 GMT
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Darren New <new@udel.edu> in Message-ID <15707@louie.udel.EDU> writes:

> Another thought to ponder:
> Would you want your RAM: drive to use virtual memory?
> :-) :-) Darren

Of course you would! (If you had a large physical ram space to map into)

Basically it would be like accessing your hard drive through a disk cache, but
without incurring the delay of forced writes to disk. Using a disk cache like
FACC on the other hand would be a really stupid.

Valentin
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