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From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: In defense of the VAX
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Date: 24 Feb 89 18:28:56 GMT
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In article <76700073@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:


>1.  I seem to remember from my OS class that the vax virtual memory
>system was quite an innovation.  I don't know about VM in today's
>machines -- do they do it any *BETTER*?

Yes, and so did older machines.  I would consider the virtual memory
systems of ATLAS, the B5000, the 360/67 and Multics (GE 645) to have
been the significant innovators of the idea, not the VAX.

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James Sterbenz  Computer and Communications Research Center
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