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When I played with IA32 in assembly, I think it was possible to swap segments in and out as well (you could order actual printed IA32 books from Intel for free,

When I played with IA32 in assembly, I think it was possible to swap segments in and out as well (you could order actual printed IA32 books from Intel for free, which was great for a high-school student in Serbia in late 1990s ;)). It was a long time ago, so maybe I am misremembering things. Thus, I always considered "paging" a shorthand for "swapping of memory pages".

kazinator 6y ago
The term "swapping" originally comes from the multiprogramming technique of exchanging an entire program in memory, and its data, for another program and its data (without any virtual memory support).