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From: poorman@convex.com (Peter W. Poorman)
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Subject: Re: Virtual Memory and Sys 7
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Date: 9 May 91 22:00:32 GMT
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Another point to consider is that virtual memory allows two (or more) processes
to share a portion of their address space.  This is an incredibly powerful
capability.

Don't confuse virtual memory with demand paging.

--Pete Poorman
  poorman@convex.com