Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!kjh
From: kjh@aludra.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Virtual memory or swapping
Message-ID: <12980@chaph.usc.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 06:41:53 GMT
Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu
Organization: EE-Systems, USC, Los Angeles
Lines: 14
Nntp-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <211@minixug.mugnet.org> waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred van Kempen) writes:
>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?
>Someone at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam (NL) has written a
>swapper for MINIX.

I don't see any reason why virtual memory couldn't be implemented even
on a brain dead '286, 8086, or 8088.  The 64k + 64k process limit would
still be there, but machines with only 640k might greatly benefit.

--
favorite oxymorons: military intelligence, honest politician, civil war
Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6       kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh