[ih] vm vs. memory

[John R. Levine]

>> I read the paper and it looked like it just gave you a big flattish
>> address space, not a file system.  Multics and TSS had file systems with
>> persistent named files.
>
> Yes. There's no doubt that Multics was a great conceptual advance.

In case it's not clear, I agree that the VM in the Atlas was a big deal. 
As far as I can tell, at the time nobody anticpated that the same hardware 
and software could be used to provide file systems.

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