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From: rveldema@cs.vu.nl (Veldema RS)
Subject: Re: job control and swapping
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I spoke to tanenbaum a while ago and he said he
didn't want/like paging cause of cheaper ram making it
unnessesary now...

Albert S Woodhull (aswNS@hamp.hampshire.edu) wrote:
: On Thu, 07 Nov 1996 14:15:16 +0100 Jorge JUAN-CHICO
: (jjchico@cnm.us.es) wrote in comp.os.minix:

: : I'am new to minix and don't know much, but it seems not to has job
: : control. Has it? It is implemented elsewhere?
: : Is there an easy-to-install patch for implementing swapping?

: Standard Minix does not have job control. It's an exercise for the
: student. The same goes for swapping.

: If you have enough video memory (if you have any kind of video adapter
: other than an absolute low-end MDA or HGA), you can install virtual
: consoles, which give you many of the benefits of job control (you can
: switch to another virtual console and let something you have started
: continue to run on an invisible console. It's not exactly the same
: thing as job control, but to my mind it is better. The main limitation
: is that you have to be working at the system console, you can't use
: virtual consoles over a network connection.

: Al
: --------------------------------
:  Albert S. Woodhull
:  Hampshire College, Amherst, MA     
:  awoodhull@hamp.hampshire.edu   
:  http://minix1.hampshire.edu/asw/
