peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (12/03/89)
In article <556@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: > As you probably know, other systems since then have also used it. And I've > heard that Unix 5.4 will support this feature, too. I haven't heard that. I know SunOS has a 'mapped file' capability, but that's only for bitmapped devices. Mapped files are in Mach, though. > the "it's in there!" release of Unix :-) Yeh, and the Sytsem-V.4/Mach merge is the "we get to break everything" release? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com> `-_-' 'U` "Really, a video game is nothing more than a Skinner box." -- Peter Merel <pete@basser.oz>
lbl@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (leslie.b.locklear) (12/05/89)
In article <4657@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: ) In article <556@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: ) > As you probably know, other systems since then have also used it. And I've ) > heard that Unix 5.4 will support this feature, too. ) ) I haven't heard that. I know SunOS has a 'mapped file' capability, but that's ) only for bitmapped devices. Mapped files are in Mach, though. ) System VR4.0 certainly has mapped files. And SunOS 4.0.3 does also. This is a general mapped file facility, not for bitmapped devices only. Barry Locklear lbl@sf.att.com