Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!caip!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ihlpm!edsxdev0 From: edsxdev0@ihlpm.UUCP (Bruzzini) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Paging Message-ID: <842@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 21:02:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpm.842 Posted: Thu Oct 9 21:02:55 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 08:26:25 EDT References: <8494@duke.duke.UUCP> <147@eneevax.UUCP> <7110@utzoo.UUCP>, <1181@ncr-sd.UUCP> <7190@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 16 > This is an amusing juxtaposition. Greg, please see any good computer-science > dictionary and encyclopedia for the *modern* meaning of "virtual memory". > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology From my dictionary of computer terms: virtual memory: The mapping of a program address into a physical memory address, usually done by hardware. paging: The operation of moving pages of information to and from secondary storage Daryl Monge NET: ihnp4!ihelp!dlm AT&T CIS: 72717,65 Bell Labs Naperville, Ill.