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From: goldman@apple.com (Phil Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Virtual Memory Question
Message-ID: <1974@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 19:26:52 GMT
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In article <758@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph 
Martin) writes:
> Will the virtual memory require a separate partition on the hard disk,
> or will there be a swap file?

There will be a backing store file that can be put on any local disk (if 
it has enough room).  It will be a simple HFS file, and need not be 
contiguous  -- there will be no need to re-format disks.

-Phil Goldman
Apple Computer