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Subject: Re:  System page table
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 16:13:58 EST
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From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)

The best place to start with understanding virtual memory is the
"VAX Architecture" book. This will tell you how addresses get
translated in gory detail.

Briefly, the system page table is always memory resident. The system
itself can page. A processes page table is in the system virtual address
space.

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