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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
Message-ID: <3859@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 23 May 89 02:24:59 GMT
References: <8905200449.AA20664@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3856@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <3856@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> Bummer.  You can't do mapped files without an MMU.  That means mapped files
> would be not work with non-MMU Amigas.  OK, you *could* do it if you didn't
> demand page the file in on non-MMU machines but rather copied the whole
> thing in on first open and then wrote the whole thing out on last close and 
> maybe at checkpoint intervals or whatever.  It's sick, I know.

Actually VMS allows you to specify this sort of mapped file as well as the
more normal sort, so I guess there MUST be some use for it.

I mean, DEC wouldn't put something in nobody would ever use, now would they?
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
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