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> After talking with my dad about it, he said that this
> was a very different way to look at virtual memory.
> Is this true? Is there something new about Linux's
> way?

It was original once. But that was about 1982.

> As an example, my dad said that under Solaris you can
> start a program and then remove the disk that the
> program is on. I'm fairly sure Linux can't do that.

You can't actually remove the disk from under a Solaris app - it pages
code from the original file.

Alan


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