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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A -- memory protection (none)
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Date: 16 May 89 23:56:53 GMT
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In article <7320@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> another actually increases in System 7.0.  To be useful, virtual memory
> requires that process sizes be able to increase.  Given one large
> address space, the only way to do this on the Mac is by discontiguous
> heaps -- that is, when the application heap runs out of memory, a new

The System 7.0 virtual memory implementation sits under MultiFinder.  
Everything is the same as it is now, except that MultiFinder thinks it has 
more RAM to work with.  The heaps are all allocated contiguously from the 
large address space.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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