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Re: paging, VM, and Peter Denning

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From: J Q Johnson
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1986 10:50
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As those of you familiar with Peter Denning's article on VM know, he
does not really address most of the issues we've been discussing, since
he argues that one can make the addressing penalty for VM negligible (a
claim that the supercomputer folks dispute).  His article does, though,
suggest an interesting excuse for segmented architectures: since in a
pure segmented architecture the VM is more user-visible than in a
typical paged one, it is a natural candidate for software architectures
that provide more control to the programmer, while still retaining VM.
Phrased differently, perhaps those who argue in favor of programmer-
defined overlays should call them "segments" instead.
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From: jqj@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (J Q Johnson)
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Subject: Re: paging, VM, and Peter Denning
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 06:50:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 19 06:50:56 1986
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