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Article #18Re: VE on a MIPS box
From: lusol
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 23:25
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 23:25
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Rob Peglar says: > >According to Dave Folsom, who I consider a friend (if not a co-worker >any more :-)) there "is some work being put into VE on the MIPS >platforms" (paraphrased quotation) Watch out Unices. :-). > >Plus, the guy who's doing the work is a long-time CDCer and no doubt >would do a very good job. I'm down to 50 hpw, where do I sign up? Dave Christie says: > >architecture. All the components of a task's address space that partition >so nicely into segments - code, libraries, stack, working storage, files, >etc. - would all have to be smooshed into windows in one flat 2GB address >space. Yes, it will be difficult to smoosh a NOS/VE task's 48 bit PVA (Process Virtual Address) space of 8.8 trillion bytes into a 2 billion byte space! And what about the 16 rings... The 386 at least supported 4 rings, if I remember correctly (which I probably do not). Steve Lidie Lehigh University Computing Center LUSOL@CDC1.CC.Lehigh.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!umich!sharkey!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!lusol From: lusol@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: VE on a MIPS box Message-ID: <10127.262384ad@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> Date: 11 Apr 90 23:25:33 GMT Organization: Lehigh University Lines: 28