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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by 0x457 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:01PM (#40288370)
Not, probably, that just how any "modern" OS works. It also uses RAM as a cache to avoid reads from storage, just like any other modern OS.

Apple uses it for segmentation and nothing else.

Modern being - since the 80s.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by tomxor on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @07:42PM (#40292794)
Even on the Atari ST you would use a "RAM disk" when working with "large" data before manually flushing it to a floppy. Some people would use the trashcan icon to emphasise the need to manually flush... Not quite a cache, but the concept was there.
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