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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Subject: Re: Flushing Devices; C= doco (mutter!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.104601.19603@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1993Jan7.092127.13752@philips.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:46:01 GMT
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- From article <1993Jan7.092127.13752@philips.oz.au>, by gduncan@philips.oz.au (Gary Duncan):
- [...]
- > Passing thought ; why the heck aren't unused libraries/devices
- > flushed automatically anyway? Sounds like a legacy of the days
- > when hard disks were rare and dragging a device off floppy was
- > time-consuming. Those days are gone...
-
- For some, maybe. But memory is cheap, so why not leave it resident unless
- there is a panic?
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