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from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

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   [MIT]

   1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to
   daydreaming or preoccupation. "Can you repeat that? I paged out for a
   minute." See {page in}. Compare {glitch}, {thinko}.

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

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

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

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-01-23)

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