very misc on computers by a Pynchonite

[Mark Kohut]

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Interesting history of computing/pagination fact that I've just learned. In
Douglas Engelbart's NLS (oN-Line System), an early 1960s computer prototype
system, files were called "scrolls" and users "jumped" to specific points
in them. Before the metaphor of memory paging.