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> That's not correct. The 80286 had sufficient memory management hardware for full Unix. What it did not have was sufficient memory management hardware for reas
by lproven 3y ago
> That's not correct. The 80286 had sufficient memory management hardware for full Unix. What it did not have was sufficient memory management hardware for reasonable demand paging, but it was fine for swapping systems.
Oh my word. A correction for something I wrote, what, 18 years ago?
I hope you will forgive me if I don't go edit it. ;-) I barely remember writing it.
TBPH I think that the distinction between swapping and paging is a subtlety that is beyond even most Linux hackers these days. I take your point but it is a small terminological inexactitude IMHO... no?