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- From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Virtual Memory on MultiTos
- Summary: Yes? No? Also other topic.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.043917.1193@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 04:39:17 GMT
- Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- Lines: 37
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- I was wondering whether there are any plans on supporting virtual memory
- with MultiTos. Virtual Memory seems like a great feature. Example, with
- v.m. one will never have to worry about their terminal program's capture
- buffer getting full. Now, I have a feeling MultiTos does not yet support
- v.m. because nobody seems to have mentioned it as one of its features.
- So I ask: Will a 3rd party external program to allow virtual memory be
- just as transparent as if it was directly built-in to MultiTos?
-
- (rhetorical question: How hard could it be to support V.M.?)
-
- (At our university, we have tons of 16Mhz,68020-based workstations for the
- first-to-third year students that use virtual memory THROUGH A NETWORK,
- [meaning no local hard disk, a virual memory page swap has to be done
- through a busy network] and run quite well. You NEVER (ever) have to
- worry about running out of memory. In fact, the machines only have
- 8 megs of ram yet you can run programs and reserve 16 megs of ram for
- that program alone....)
-
- ------- topic 2 -------
-
- Another topic I was wondering about was whether MiNT (and thus MultiTos)
- does the following: When a program is loaded, say program X. If the program
- is loaded again in another window / by another user / by a background shell
- script, will the operating system notice that it is already loaded and just
- use the copy in memory (but having a local stack and program pointers)
- or will it load the program all over again (thus wasting precious primary
- memory)?
-
- ------- topic 3 -------
-
- If 100 Falcons were shipped to developpers in Germany, direct from Taiwan,
- can we take that as a sign that the Factories are ready for Full production?
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