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Article #2359Re: Variable Page size
From: Rob Peglar x615
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 14:55
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 14:55
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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 !! ETA System V supported variable page sizes of the form supported by the ETA-10 hw. This was two flavors of page, "small" and "large" - both were selectable at boot time. "small" was 16 or 64kB; "large" was 512kB or 2048kB. (n.b., the 2048kB aka "giant page" was not officially supported or tested). If this is what "variable page sizes" means above, then yes. An arbitrary a.out could use both sizes simultaneously. Typical use was small for text, large for data and bss. Rob ...uunet!csinc!rpeglar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!csinc!rpeglar From: rpeglar@csinc.UUCP (Rob Peglar x615) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Variable Page size Summary: yes, it exists Message-ID: <119@csinc.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:55:32 GMT References: <1006@mipos3.intel.com> Organization: Control Systems, Inc., St. Paul MN Lines: 21