Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters

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From: s... steve lamont
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 05:18

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In article <36...@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v116...@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com>, len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes...
>>|"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!" 
>Someone at work once said something to this effect. ...
>        ... I'm not entirely sure if he was joking or not, somehow I don't
>think he was.  

Actually, this idea may not be entirely fatuous.  The swapper is probably
better at handling I/O than the disk I/O routines.  For instance, it is more
efficient (I think, it has been a while) to map a file into virtual memory and
treat it as RAM on a VMS VAX.  This may just be a function of the rotten VMS C
standard I/O library, however.

							spl (the p stands for
							page fault)
-- 
Steve Lamont -- SciViGuy -- Phone number of the week: (408) 646-2572
Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943
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From: s...@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil (steve lamont)
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Subject: Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
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Date: 20 Sep 90 05:18:23 GMT
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