Virtual memories for mini-computers

  • Authors:
  • Timothy D. Chase;Robert M. Glorioso

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM '72 Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the application and implementation of virtual memory systems on mini-computers. The system constraints and their effect on the design parameters are discussed in detail and a general design philosophy is developed. A specific implementation, both software and hardware, of a virtual memory system on a PDP-11/20 is described. The final system makes a machine with 8K of core and a small disk appear to the user as an off-the-shelf 32K computer with the capability of banking as many 32K sections as the disk can support. Memory protection is also available.