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1.1     ! root        1: .TH DRUM 4 5/11/81
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: drum \- paging device
        !             5: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             6: This file refers to the paging device in use by the system.
        !             7: This may actually be a subdevice of one of the disk drivers, but in
        !             8: a system with paging interleaved across multiple disk drives
        !             9: it provides an indirect driver for the multiple drives.
        !            10: .SH FILES
        !            11: /dev/drum
        !            12: .SH BUGS
        !            13: Reads from the drum are not allowed across the interleaving boundaries.
        !            14: Since these only occur every
        !            15: .BR . 5Mbytes
        !            16: or so,
        !            17: and since the system never allocates blocks across the boundary,
        !            18: this is usually not a problem.

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