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Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 23:45:10 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

Largely because you could swap out part of a segment.