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The Locality Principle.

This article reports that locality of reference is one of the cornerstones of computer science. It was born from efforts to make virtual memory systems work well. Virtual memory was first developed in 1959 on the Atlas System at the University of Manchester. Its superior programming environment doub...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 19 - 25
Main Author: Denning, Peter J.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2005
Subjects:
Virtual storage (Computer science)
Computer programming
Computer operating systems
Computer networks
Algorithms
Integrated circuits
Computer multitasking
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