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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What SHOULD go in the kernel
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Date: 20 Oct 89 16:26:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)

Dick Dunn:
)   I'm afraid that if you let the "kernel" page, you really open it up
) wide--there's no reason to think twice about putting EVERYthing in the
) kernel and turning it into another MVS.

Under Elxsi's OS, "embos", even the page tables can be paged.  Even the
page tables for the paged-out page table entries can be paged out.  (But
it does stop at the third level of page table entries.)
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu