The document discusses memory management techniques used in early UNIX operating systems, noting that pre-3BSD systems used swapping exclusively to handle memory contention among processes. It then describes how later Berkeley UNIX systems primarily used paging and demand paging, where when a process needs a page not in memory a page fault occurs and a frame is allocated to load the page from disk. The document also provides details on the data structures used to manage paging, including page table entries, disk block descriptors, and tables to track page frames and swap space usage.