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

[dave at cca.org]

woods at weird.com writes:

>[ On Friday, February 8, 2002 at 16:56:01 (EST), dave at cca.org wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Has Sun Learned from SGI's Mistakes?
>>
>> No, no - the 3B2s always had paging. I used to malloc() arrays bigger
>> than physical ram on mine.

>Hmmmm.... 3B2s, maybe, but not all 3Bs.  I don't think there was full
>demand-paged virtual memory support in UNIX System V Release 2.0, which
>was what ran on 3B5S and 3B15s (and VAXen) in the early days.  As you

I've *never* actually seen one of the bigger 3B*s. When was that line
introduced, with which machine?

>may recall I posted about a year ago on this subject on the 'rescue'
>list...  :-)

Aye, I was getting a deja vu feeling about that...

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