Quote: Multics treats files as segments in virtual memory; avoids file copies and overlay management, needs 'attach' mechanism

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Part of the rationale for the Multics approach … copying implies that the user must devise an … By including all files as segments in the … is a need for a mechanism which 'attaches' … the process's virtual memory.   Google-1   Google-2

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