Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!husc6!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Forwarded message (MINIX) Message-ID: <3358@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 14:34:15 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.3358 Posted: Sun Jan 11 14:34:15 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:57:44 EST Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 19 Yes, we had a system which swapped to floppies also (MINC-11/RX02, actually we had a system up which did it with non-dma RX01s but that was too painful to think about...) Hmm, if the problem is relocation how awful would swapping to memory be? That is, rather than swapping in and out of a floppy you just rearrange the processes in memory on context switch. Oh, it won't be dazzling, but certainly many times faster than a floppy. Or maybe I should just throw my hands up and suggest getting the right hardware to do the job, the law of diminishing returns slowly comes into play (especially because one strongly suspects that by the time the bugs are out of an O/S and possibly a C compiler which meets the above requirements ATARI or someone like them will have announced a 2MB systems with MMU and reasonable hard disk for under $2K [oops, I think that's here already :-]) -Barry Shein, Boston University