CPU-utilization and secondary-storage performance
Peter Schneider · 1977
Previous studies investigated the usability of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) in the context of economies to be achieved in main memory capacity. In systems with virtual memories, such economies result from the use of fast paging devices. In spite of the concomitant savings in main memory costs, which will probably be eaten up by the costs of the new-technology paging device, the price/performance ratio must be expected to be less favorable than that of conventional systems, since the share of the operating system software required for page fault handling will increase.