Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Is Xenix virtual memory? Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 20:54:08 GMT References: <4736@peora.sdc.ccur.com> <1991May7.183556.11308@robobar.co.uk> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department Lines: 28 In-reply-to: ronald@robobar.co.uk's message of 7 May 91 18:35:56 GMT In article <1991May7.183556.11308@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: > > n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) writes: > > > No, XENIX is not virtual memory, it's an operating system. But I > > think you mean't to ask if XENIX _uses_ virtual memory, no? :-) The > > answer to that question is: yes. > > No, the answer is "it depends". Most versions of Xenix are *not* > virtual mem operating systems. The 286 Xenix I'm sitting at isn't, > for a start. The 386 Xenix sat next to my desk at the office *is* > a virtual mem OS. I don't know about the 68000 xenices, not having > ever used one, but I doubt they are. > .... > Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H) Oops! You're right, of course. I tend to forget these details, but they are important. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python