Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!unmvax!bbx!bbxeng!scott From: scott@bbxeng.UUCP (Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Instruction (dis)continuation Message-ID: <208@bbxeng.UUCP> Date: 29 Aug 89 16:27:37 GMT References: <1989Aug24.215104.156@mentor.com> <231@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2345@oakhill.UUCP> <204@bbxeng.UUCP> <5990@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <205@bbxeng.UUCP> <5995@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: scott@bbxeng.UUCP (Scott-Engineering) Organization: Basis International, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 18 In article <5995@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes: Sorry, I should have stated explicitly the strong requirement that is placed on the OS: The user program must not be able to notice that anything happened (except in second-order ways, such as the time of day jumping ahead). Just as long as we don't have to go back to stack probes. -- --------------------------------------- Scott Amspoker Basis International, Albuquerque, NM 505-345-5232