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From: waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Virtual memory or swapping, was Re: SCSI disk drives under MINIX
Message-ID: <211@minixug.mugnet.org>
Date: 4 Nov 90 21:40:23 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.224953.7915@dsuvax.uucp>
Organization: MINIX User Group Holland (NLMUG)   -  MUGNET  -
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In article <1990Oct31.224953.7915@dsuvax.uucp>, ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) wrote:
> Is anyone with SPARC, 68030, or 80[34]86 chips working on adding
> demand paged virtual memory to MINIX?  Lacking that, has anyone
> successfully put process swapping in?
> 
> I hate being constrained by physical memory :-(
Yes.
Someone at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam (NL) has written a
swapper for MINIX.  He is now converting it to 1.5, and adding code
for the SharedText feature.  To prevent his mailbox from overflowing,
I will forward this to him.  He can then reply either directly or
through me.

Fred.
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