Paging != Virtual Memory
T.J.Teixeira
tjt at kobold.UUCP
Sat Nov 26 02:56:46 AEST 1983
A small point:
Ed Lee (fortune!lee) says:
DEC would not build the VAX ( Virtual Address eXtension ) if they can
sell the pdp-11 as virtual memory system.
The biggest advantage of the VAX over the PDP-11 is the larger address
space you get with the VAX. Although you could build virtual memory on
the pdp-11, the 64K byte address space is too small anyway. Of course,
it is more important to implement virtual memory if you have a really
*big* address space.
--
Tom Teixeira, Massachusetts Computer Corporation. Westford MA
...!{ihnp4,harpo,decvax,ucbcad,tektronix}!masscomp!tjt (617) 692-6200
More information about the Comp.unix.wizards
mailing list