One of the first timesharing machines, the PDP-1, had a memory of 4-KB 18-bit words. It held

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One of the first timesharing machines, the PDP-1, had a memory of 4-KB 18-bit words. It held one process at a time in memory. When the scheduler decided to run another process, the process in memory was written to a paging drum, with 4K 18-bit words around the circumference of the drum. The drum could start writing (or reading) at any word, rather than only at word 0. Why do you suppose this drum was chosen?

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Operating Systems Design And Implementation

ISBN: 9780131429383

3rd Edition

Authors: Andrew Tanenbaum, Albert Woodhull

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