page in

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

page in
 v.

   [MIT]

   1. To become aware of one's surroundings again after having paged out
   (see {page out}). Usually confined to the sarcastic comment: "Eric
   pages in, {film at 11}!"

   2. Syn. swap in; see {swap}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

page in

   <storage, architecture> What a {paging} system does when it
   copies part of a {task}'s {working memory} from {swap space}
   on disk to {RAM}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-01-23)

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