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Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?

To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?
From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:14:20 +0100
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Alan Cox wrote:

> This is the main point. There are so so few devices that actually _have_ to
> have lots of linear memory it is questionable that it is worth paying the
> price to allow modules to allocate that way

Soundcard hardware wavetable synthesizers come in mind. There are very
few cards that do _not_ require multimegabyte contiguous memory.

But then again software synthesizers are realizable these days.

Tom
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