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[GLS at MIT-MC (Guy L. Steele, Jr.)]

    RLB tells me he spoke to HIC about a mode in SUSPEND or something 
    whereby the MACSYMA dump need not duplicate on disk the pure pages 
    contained in the PURQIO dump.  This sounds to me like a neat hack 
    that should be done, and HIC tells me he is willing to do it, only 
    that GLS didn't think this should be done.  Since MACSYMA has always 
    loaded in the LISP dump on SYS;, I don't see why not.  Comments from 
    GLS?
The reason for dumping out the complete set of pages is mainly robustness;
in case the LISP somehow disappears, the MACSYMA is still runnable.
There is a tight enough coordination  between the LISP people and the MACSYMA
people that this may not be a problem; but for the sake of other suspended
programs, I think that flushing the pages should not be the DEFAULT mode,
even if offered as a (slightly dangerous) alternative.