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On Thu, 5 Sep 2024 14:59:20 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> What I really wanted was relocatable segments I could load on demand or
> paging, but that was a lot to ask of an 8088 or a real mode 286.

The Burroughs machines had swappable segments, I gather. So the difference 
between segmentation and paging came down to: the address space is still 
linear, but segments are variable-length, and pages are fixed-length.

It was soon generally agreed that fixed-length pages were easier to deal 
with.