[comp.os.minix] Paging on minix-386.

KHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka) (06/22/91)

Hi,

        Could someone please explain how the paging implementation on Bruce
Evans Minix-386 differs from normal paging.

thanks

aditya

khatuka@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu

evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) (06/27/91)

In article <56951@nigel.ee.udel.edu> KHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka) writes:
>        Could someone please explain how the paging implementation on Bruce
>Evans Minix-386 differs from normal paging.

It does only about 1% of the work necessary for a real paging system. Paging
is only used to defragment the initial memory map.
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Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au