30 Nov
2017
30 Nov
'17
22:07
James -- ...and then James Knott said... % % On 30/11/17 07:30 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote: % > % > I used to use "paging" for ram % % Anyone here remember overlays? Many years ago, I used to work on Data % General Nova computers. They had 8 or 16 KB of memory and head per [snip] Yes, although I was never smart enough to be able to actually play with the code. It was just this magic thing the software did to allow one to access "large" amounts of memory with those tiny 8-bit chips :-) HH :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org