5 Oct
2008
5 Oct
'08
8:04 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sridhar Ayengar" <ploopster at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: Evolution of Memory Protection and Virtual Memory
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Oh - found a paper written in 1996 by Peter Denning of George Mason
University, on the history of virtual memory.
http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/PUBS/bvm.pdf
Here's another on the Burroughs B5000, released in 1961. The Atlas was not
completed until 1962.
http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burroughs%20B-5000.…
Tony
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Well, certainly the storage system in the Manchester Atlas would be
considered virtual memory.
Not me, but perhaps when you do get your list
together you can post it,
that sounds like a rather interesting subject...
Other than the very early pre-computer computers, would not the drum
be considered virtual memory?