>> now use paging rather than swapping
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You know next to sod all about computers in general ;-)
Swapping is the act of moving unused, but still active, memory pages to disk. i.e. swapping is a feature of paging.
It's been that way since paged memory architectures were first invented, oddly enough to enable the use of non-memory storage as swap space. Ferranti did it first on the Atlas in 1962 (thanks Wibblepedia) and I don't see that as one of MS's "competititors".
Page memory architecture and swapping has been around in Windows since Win 3.0. Well, that's what the Wibblepedia says, but I'm pretty sure it was in Win 386 before that.....
That windows Task Manager has a load of extra columns you can enable in the view menu. One of the more interesting is "Page faults". A page fault occurs when a memory page required by a process is not immediately available in RAM and has to be fetched from elsewhere (usually swap space).
I see that Linux's "top" command will show page fault (swapping) details, but I'm stuck with HP-UX which doesn't....
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