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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: VAX RISC
Message-ID: <27349@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 16:36:25 GMT
References: <10948@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <10948@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu
(Donald Lindsay) writes:
>DEC has announced that it will build a "VAX RISC". I haven't heard
>any details: so, let's speculate.
>We know the page size...

i.e., too small :-)

>because they probably can't find all of the places where VMS assumed it.

I would be inclined to believe otherwise, but I think a larger problem
is that VMS has let the page size show through to applications; many
no doubt depend on 512-byte pages.
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