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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Virt Mem on V.4
Message-ID: <10499@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Jul 89 20:43:39 GMT
References: <1515@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1870@auspex.auspex.com> <987@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <987@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> hiho@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (paul.ho) writes:
>Is region (introduced in SVR3.0) dead? Or does it co-exist with
>the VM stuff in SVR4? Thanks.

From the AT&T BOF at USENIX recently, I'd say that the region approach
was totally replaced by VM.  The implication is that SVR4 will be a
real bitch to port to a system that doesn't have an MMU that conforms
to the VM model.  E.g. some supercomputers..