Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1991-04-02
1996-02-06
Dixon, Joseph L.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364DIG1, 364245, G06F 1200
Patent
active
054902606
ABSTRACT:
A computer using virtual memory management employs a random-access type storage device such as a semiconductor memory for page swapping. The semiconductor memory is formatted to provide multiple partitions of varying block size, e.g., two block sizes, for compressed pages, and another block size for uncompressed original-sized pages. The data to be stored is in pages of fixed size, and these pages are compressed for storage if the compressed size fits in the block size of one of the small-block partitions in the memory. If a data page is not compressible to one of the small block sizes, it is stored uncompressed in the other full-size partition. The operating system maintains a table storing the locations of the pages in the partitions, so upon recall the page (if compressed) is retrieved from its location found using the table, decompressed and sent to the CPU. The relative number of blocks in the partitioned memory (e.g., the physical storage capacity of the memory) is set (or dynamically allocated) at the average ratio of compressible pages to uncompressible pages for the compression algorithm used. For example, an algorithm may compress 90% of the pages to either 50% or 70% of their original size, so a ratio of the number of locations in the compressed partitions of the semiconductor memory to the number of locations in the uncompressed partition is selected as 90:10. The compression mechanism operates on bytes in bit-parallel format, and uses a lookahead buffer which is compared with bytes in a window to produce 9-bit symbols. The stream of 9-bit symbols passes through an ECC generator, also operating in bit-parallel.
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Bellman Christopher M.
Fullerton Lawrence M.
Harrington Gary L.
Miller William D.
Weldon, Jr. E. J.
Ceram, Inc.
Dixon Joseph L.
Kim Matthew M.
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