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The method of storage allocation known as "demand paging," first introduced by the designers of the Atlas computer, has a very appealing conceptual simplicity. Furthermore, the possibility that this technique could be used to allow programmers to ignore the problems of organizing information flow between working storage and one or more levels of backing storage was, to say the least, very tempting.
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Kuehner et al. (1968) studied this question.