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From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Bugs and Problems
Message-ID: <680023@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 90 20:22:51 GMT
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This notestring is very informative, but I thought I'd correct one
misstatement:

Gerrit writes:

> Mach may have one of the best theoretical memory management designs
> and a fairly good implementation, but Mach is also a fairly young
> OS and some of these swapping ideas are fairly new (swapping to
> multiple FILES as opposed to partitions,...         ^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I believe DEC's VMS has been doing this for almost a decade.

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