Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mimir!hugin!augean!sibyl!ian
From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: 32000 Un-Nicities
Keywords: problem yuck
Message-ID: <410@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ>
Date: 24 Nov 89 14:20:48 GMT
References: <1914@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>
Reply-To: ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall)
Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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In article <1914@minyos.xx.rmit.oz> s872625@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Chris Cogdon [Brataccas]) writes:
>1) Displacements can only cover 1M of addressing space (512k if you only
>   allow for forward displacements from a fixed base).

Not true. Displacements can be 30 bit signed which is 1GB not 1MB.

>The purpose of this item is to see if anyone knows WHY these un-nicities
>were put there. Or is NSC not as infallible as we think it is.

Well, I've never heard anyone suggest they were infallible before!



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Ian Dall     life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts
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