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In message <43CD612E.2060002@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
>Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
>> I have implemented support in the vm for PAGE_SIZE values which are a 
>> multiple of the hardware page size.  This is primarily useful for two 
>> things:
>
>Mach (and the VM system we inherrited from it) had this. I beieve it was 
>removed with teh comment
>"If we need this and someone is willing to support it it can be added 
>back" .

It was a VAX artifact and not very usable.  I belive we have a couple
of comments and macros which still talk about "clicks".

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