Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 18:09:35 -0300

In message <jum-1309982136490001@anubis.han.de>, Jens-Uwe Mager writes:
+-----
| Earlier (e.g 68k Macs) also stored code segments there, but nowadays most
| code fragments reside in the data fork as one would expect with other
| OS's.
+--->8

Ah, so they did change it to something rational.

(Actually, the resources trick made sense with the way Apple's memory
management worked on 68000s, where demand paging couldn't work --- but it
was a hindrance to proper memory management on a 68020.)

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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