On 30.08.11 16:16, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > On a slightly related topic, I've been thinking about what to do on the > smaller machines to increase the amount of working storage. With a > strict programming API I can use temp files as backing storage, kind of > like implementing bank switched memory but backed by hard disk storage > instead. Pretty slow, but better than not having any extra memory > storage. One thing that frustrates me is that there is no way to make a > 'bad' pointer on an 8088. Sure, the pointer can point to garbage, but > there is no way to create a pointer that forces an interrupt. That > would help things tremendously, especially when it comes to the part > about testing and making the code robust. (It can be done with some > extra hardware, but I don't think I'm that crazy yet.) Why the > interested in memory allocation? I suspect that things like rsync are > going to be limited by memory ...
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