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From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Page size and the meaning of life
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Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:14:26 EST
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Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: virtual memory, page size

In article <1764@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>Not only this, but the number of users also expands.  One thing often
>overlooked, I think, is that with a paging system, assuming adequate
>locality of reference, you can have a large number of pages resident that
>are actively in use by a large number of users, instead of having great
>unused expanses of memory allocated to large programs at any one time,
>keeping other users out of memory.

Before all of you single user machine (workstation) fans start flaming
about the obsolencance of multiuser machines, replace the word "users"
above with the word "processes."  jer's point is just as valid that
way.

Jeff Siegal - MIT EECS (jbs@mit-eddie on the ____net)