Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:21:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <873530da43db3e0861f42ffa00aa68dd@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:21:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="110520bb82bb1911011964dccfc64be6"; logging-data="2946586"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/PvgzxRECVxo9XiQuOFr1j" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZktYlqglG27r6bnqdVYVdMZPxt4= Bytes: 1492 On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 16:55:44 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote: > With pages you can swap parts of a segment (page at a time) > with segmentation (only) you cannot swap parts of the segment. Mixing the two seems counterproductive, unless you have few, large segments. Burroughs-style segments were smaller and more numerous than that.