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Old February 21st 18, 04:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Blake[_5_]
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:34:05 -0500, GS wrote:

Il se trouve que GS a formulé :
GS a émis l'idée suivante :


Sorry.., my bad! I was thinking of Pagefile...


Do you mean swap file is not pagefile.sys?


Back in the high$$ RAM days we used to 'inflate' the pagefile to defer apps
slowing down to do read/write to disc instead of 'in memory'. I think we used
to term it 'swapfile' because of its interaction with OS and apps.



We used to call it the "swap file," because that was its name.


But then when I was introduced to computers in college, 1 computer occupied
several rooms. So what do I know!




Computers varied enormously in size, just as they do today. I started
working as a programmer in 1962; in those days some computers were so
big that they might take up several rooms, but the one I started on
was an IBM 1401, which was roughly the size of a refrigerator.
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