[net.unix-wizards] Running UNIX with non-contiguous RAM

norskog@fortune.UUCP (02/16/84)

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fortune!norskog    Feb 15 12:54:00 1984

OK, it's clarification time...

What I want to know is, how do you get UNIX to manage processes well
in permanently fragmented RAM?  That is, instead of one slice
of RAM from address A to address B, you have 2 or more non-contiguous
fragments.  What do you have to do to run these as efficiently as 1 fragment?
Do you just have to implement core-shuffling? (A good idea anyway.)

Lance C. Norskog
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA
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