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

[Greg A. Woods]

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

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