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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 06:53:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 00:45:05 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

> 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.

I’m assuming you meant “couldn’t” ...