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From: af@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Alessandro Forin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Variable Page size
Message-ID: <6333@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 89 23:05:24 GMT
References: <1006@mipos3.intel.com>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <1006@mipos3.intel.com>, rajeevc@mipos2.intel.com (rajeev chandrasekhar) writes:
> 
> Does anybody know of some form of Unix that supports variable 
> page sizes. I would be real interested in finding out more 
> about something like this if it exists at all !!
> 

If you mean selecting the pagesize at boot time then Mach is one.  Any
multiple of the hardware pagesize is acceptable.  This feature is used
routinely and the machines that use a default pagesize greater than the
hardware one are probably the majority.

sandro-