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===Ferranti Atlas=== The first computer to support paging was the supercomputer [[Atlas Computer (Manchester)|Atlas]],<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Sumner |first1 = F. H. |last2 = Haley |first2 = G. |last3 = Chenh |first3 = E. C. Y. |title = Information Processing 1962 |series = IFIP Congress Proceedings |chapter = The Central Control Unit of the 'Atlas' Computer |volume = Proceedings of IFIP Congress 62 |year = 1962 | publisher = Spartan }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.computer50.org/kgill/atlas/atlas.html |title= The Atlas |publisher = Department of Computer Science |location = University of Manchester |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120728105352/http://www.computer50.org/kgill/atlas/atlas.html |archive-date = 2012-07-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/atlas/p005.htm |title = Atlas Architecture |work = Atlas Computer |publisher = Atlas Computer Laboratory |location = Chilton |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121210142240/http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/atlas/p005.htm |archive-date = 2012-12-10 }}</ref> jointly developed by [[Ferranti]], the [[University of Manchester]] and [[Plessey]] in 1963. The machine had an associative ([[Content-addressable memory|content-addressable]]) memory with one entry for each 512 word page. The Supervisor<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Kilburn |first1 = T. |last2 = Payne |first2 = R. B. |last3 = Howarth |first3 = D. J. |title = Computers - Key to Total Systems Control |series = Conferences Proceedings |pages = 279β294 |chapter = The Atlas Supervisor |chapter-url = http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/atlas/p019.htm |volume = 20, Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference Washington, D.C. |date = December 1961 |publisher = Macmillan |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091231062425/http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/atlas/p019.htm |archive-date = 2009-12-31 }} </ref> handled non-equivalence interruptions{{efn|A non-equivalence interruption occurs when the high order bits of an address do not match any entry in the associative memory.}} and managed the transfer of pages between core and drum in order to provide a one-level store<ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Kilburn |first1 = T. |last2 = Edwards |first2 = D. B. G. |last3 = Lanigan |first3 = M. J. |last4 = Sumner |first4 = F. H. |date = April 1962 |title = One-Level Storage System |journal = IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers |issue = 2 |pages = 223β235 |publisher = Institute of Radio Engineers |doi = 10.1109/TEC.1962.5219356 }}</ref> to programs.
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