Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:

> Having been a witness to the conflicts over adding virtual memory to
> Minix I find it ironic that the accepted practice now is to include
> virtual memory in the OS, but not use it. For a long time everyone
> used BSD because it had virtual memory and Sys V did not.

Eh? every contemporary desktop/server OS has and uses virtual memory. The need for backing store for swapping is much less these days, but it is still used and supported.

--
Ian.


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