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On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 04:00:55PM -0700, scj@yaccman.com wrote:
> The Sun workstations
> had some quirks: from time to time they would page in a page of all zeros
> due to a timing problem.  

Was this over NFS?  Because that was a thing.  Paging in from disc I've
never heard of this.

BTW, scj, loving your walk through history.  I'd love to read drafts of
your management book.  My entire career I waited to meet a person that 
got as much joy out of managing as I got out of engineering.  

Still waiting.