[Info-vax] nice for VMS

[JF Mezei]

Bob Koehler wrote:

>    There are a variety of states related to memory management, including
>    PFW, COLPG, and others I could dig up somewhere.

But virtual memory management is under the responsability of the OS. But
waiting for 8 bytes of physical memory to be loaded into a the register
is very much hardware based and would the OS be aware of this operation
taking a long enough time to warrant a switch processing to another
process ?