[comp.arch] the meaning of "memory-locked"

andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) (09/15/89)

	"This idea is already in use by some MMU systems - it's called
	uncacheable (or memory-locked) pages."

Would that it weren't.  In the US, at least, the term "memory locked"
denotes a page that it not a candidate to be swapped out to backing
store.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]