[Oberon] Re: CF-IDE adapter & virtual memory ?

[Thomas Frey]

> I've often though about this.
> Since
>    Desktops.OpenDoc"<URL>"
> fetches to display, and not to file.
> And you may have many text files available 'on' display.
> And even with a minimum 4MB RAM, no out-of-memory error shows.
> Apparently the heap is swapped out to disk as required ?
>
> Isn't this virtual memory ?
This is explicitely done in the text system. So no implicit swapping
takes place.
This does not mean that the MMU of the processor ist not used for
other purposes (eg. NIL pointer detection) in Native Oberon.

--Thomas