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A note on the efficiency of a LISP computation in a paged machine

By Daniel G. Bobrow, Daniel L. Murphy
Communications of the ACM, August 1968, Vol. 11 No. 8, Page 558
10.1145/363567.363581
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The problem of the use of two levels of storage for programs is explored in the context of a LISP system which uses core memory as a buffer for a large virtual memory stored on a drum. Details of timing are given for one particular problem.

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