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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Memory management in Dennis Ritchie's C Compiler
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    > From: Larry

    > It's possible the concept existed in some other OS but I'm not aware of
    > it.

It's pretty old. Both TENEX and ITS had the ability to map file pages into a
process' address space. Not sure if anything else of that vintage had it (not
sure what other systems back then _had_ paging, other than Atlas; those two
both had custom KA10 homebrew hardware mods to support paging). Of course,
there's always Multics... (sorry, Ken :-).

	 Noel