James Fraser wrote:
From a purely technical perspective, categorically equating memory to floppy
(or hard drive) storage is incorrect simply because floppy/HD storage is
*only* accessible through system calls and sequences of I/O instructions,
_not_ through memory operations. These are two different things.
Actually, no. See 'man mmap' for details. I know it's cheating, but mmap
makes disk storage behave like memory.
Stewart
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