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From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley)
Subject: Re: Questions about virtual mem.
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 20:48:10 GMT

>Yes, Linux does support virtual memory, in the form of a swap partition.

Virtual memory is much more than just adding some disk space to
physical ram. Virtual memory without any swap space enabled at all
would still be very useful.

- Yonik Seeley

yseeley@cs.stanford.edu

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