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

Thomas Sailer
1999-12-10T10:14:20Z

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