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Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use
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On 9/8/2024 10:47 AM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 16:12:35 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 
>> mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) writes:
>>> 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.
>>
>> The portion of the Burroughs MCP that deal with rolling out and rolling
>> in segments was called 'HIHO'.
>>
>> As in Hi Ho,  Hi Ho, it's off to work we go...
> 
> I O, I O, its off to the printer we go ...

Ever use EIEIO? ;^D