14 Jul
2015
14 Jul
'15
10:52 a.m.
On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at update.uu.se> wrote:
??? What segments??? The PDP-11 have a plain simple
page table. No
segments anywhere in sight. And each page is 8K.
I know the processor handbook calls them 'pages', but I can't think of any
other machine where pages are variable size. (I know of a couple which offer
_two_ page sizes, but none that have a field per page which specifies the
length of the page.)
They really are more like what most machines call 'segments'. I know Unix
doesn't use them that way (because it has such a simple-minded memory model),
but other systems do - e.g. MERT.
Noel