TSS/8 with modern disks?

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Sat Sep 19 16:32:53 CDT 2015


On 9/19/2015 1:30 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 9/19/15 11:12 AM, John Wilson wrote:
>> but an RK could still be fast
>> enough to be useful.
>
> When did the 4K user space(s?) actually swap? Did they round-robin or swap
> based on activity? I would think they would stay in place until cpu-bound
> jobs reached their time quantum. With only a couple of people on a 32k
> machine, it may not even swap that much, depending on what the users were
> running. I'd guess BASIC was pretty big.
>
Swapping was created I thought so you could run with only a few K of memory.
Ben.




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