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CSVAX.halbert@berkeley

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Jun 13, 1981, 7:24:37 AM6/13/81
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The Xerox Star does have virtual memory; it does page.
--Dan

LYNCH@usc-isib

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Jun 13, 1981, 7:54:05 AM6/13/81
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In response to the message sent 13 Jun 1981 10:32:20-PDT from CSVAX.halbert@Berkeley


But I have heard the paging on the Star is a terrible crock:
it does it by double lookup on every memory reference way down
in the microcode. At this time it has no hardware to assist
paging (like associative memory for the TLAs) or even a
kludge like KL-10s have. The (mis)feature makes it tough
to imaging the STar as a LISP machine host.

Dan
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