Richard.Banks@p0.f512.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Richard Banks) (01/02/91)
How much is a page of memory ? --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: OHIONet Express: ohiont.fidonet.org 216-842-5911 (1:157/512.0) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sent via ohiont.fidonet.org, home of the OHIONet Express BBS | | Fidonet 157/512: The Cleveland UFGATE Internet Connection! | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (01/03/91)
In article <701.278211E0@ohiont.fidonet.org> Richard.Banks@p0.f512.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Richard Banks) writes: >How much is a page of memory ? It's implementation-defined. It's also generally not the same for both the primary and secondary storage (RAM and disks, respectively, though for a disk it's called a "block" rather than a "page"), and sometimes there's a third one defined specifically as the I/O blocksize... Sometimes it's not even constant wrt time (that's for you hardware-simulation-accelerator fans out there :-). On a VAX running Ultrix, it's defined in /usr/{sys,include}/vax/param.h as NBPG, usually 512. On Encore Multimax machines running Umax, it's 2048; and I don't remember where to find it. --Blair "Oh, about two cents worth..."