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From: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 386 demand paged virtual memory
Message-ID: <358@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 18:04:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 18:04:09 1987
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In article <299@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>	I saw an add that indicated that the V/386 product
>	supported "demand paged virtual memory".  I this
>	true, or have they come up with an obscure new
>	meaning for those words?  I didn't think the 386
>	had the hardware for real demand paging, am I wrong?

The 386 processor has:

64 terabytes of virtual address space,
A page fault interrupt (14),
and
A restartable instruction set (two avoidable exceptions).

What else would one need?


John Allen
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