[geeks] Has Sun Learned from SGI's Mistakes?

[dave at cca.org]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>  Did the later [unreleased] designs have paged virtual memory?  I seem
>to remember something about 3B2 machines having to do full-process
>swapping instead of paging...meaning if you had a 3B2 with 4MB of RAM
>you couldn't run emacs.

No, no - the 3B2s always had paging. I used to malloc() arrays bigger
than physical ram on mine.

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