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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: When did paging get into System V
Message-ID: <974@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 09:13:24 GMT
References: <53@lazlo.UUCP> <142700033@occrsh.ATT.COM> <651@pyuxe.UUCP> <7878@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <7878@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <382@cloud9.UUCP> bob@cloud9.UUCP (Bob Toxen) writes:
> >About five years after Berkeley came out with it!
> 
> So?  Performance tests showed no significant performance advantage of
> demand paging over the then-current UNIX System V scheme of partial swapping.

Letting 5 users run 3Mbyte programs on a Vax with only 4Mbytes isn't
a significant performance advantage?  Not fast, true, but at least _possible_.