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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2018 07:02:47 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)
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>  From what I recall, PDP11 hardware memory management was based on
> segmentation rather than paging (64K divided into 16 variable sized
> segments), and Unix did swapping rather than paging (a process is either
> completely in memory or completely on disk). It does relocation and

completely in memory /and running/. or swapped out.

- erik