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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Blitter with fork
Message-ID: <2424@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 1 May 89 10:01:19 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <458@prles2.UUCP> meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes:
> has someone considered to implement disk swapping to minix. 

Many, many, many years ago, long before the first pre-release of MINIX,
full swapping was implemented.  It was big and hairy so I threw it out.
For better or worse, I do not kep copies of the hundreds of intermediate
versions I have generated during the years.  It is not clear to me why
swapping seems to be so much in the news these days.  I run MINIX on my
512K AT clone and rarely, if ever, run out of memory, so swapping doesn't
seem to be worth the added complexity.  If you add swapping to the system
it will grow so large that you will need swapping, thus becoming a 
self-fulfilling prophesy.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)