[rescue] s/390 primary/secondary, multi-level, real/extended, swap, etc.

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Feb 6 16:28:17 CST 2002


On February 6, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > > Multi-level RAM.
> > >
> > > Real and Extended is what the system calls it.
> > 
> > Actually, it depends on the OS.
> 
> Yeah -- I suspect under Unix it would be called "swap".

  Secondary storage on an S/390 (and going back to the 370
architecture I believe) is actually *memory*, not disk.

     -Dave

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