Paging != Virtual Memory

mark at cbosgd.UUCP mark at cbosgd.UUCP
Tue Nov 22 13:52:55 AEST 1983


I normally interpret "virtual memory" to mean that you can have more
"memory" in a user process (transparently to the process) than there
is physical memory on the machine.  Games with overlays do not count
since they are not completely transparent to the process.

This does not imply paging, as there are other implementations (notably
segmentation.)  However, paging is probably the most popular
implementation of virtual memory.

That stuff you get out of BTL UNIX is perhaps best called "memory
management", although there are implementations of System III or
V from outside vendors that page.



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