Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Segmented Architectures ( formerly Re: 48-bit computers) Message-ID: <45013@super.ORG> Date: 28 Mar 91 16:36:48 GMT References: <1991Mar21.164242.886@sj.nec.com> <23189@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@super.ORG Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, Md. Lines: 17 In article <23189@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: >No. The major difficulty with a segmented architecture is that it's >wrong, and the von-Neumann model is right. What does segmentation have to do with von-Neumann-ness and the lack of it? Just curious, do you use Suns? If so, then since SunOS 4.0 you have been using a segmented architecture. Of course, the segmentation is provided by the SYSTEM, not the architecture, but ... Are your comments based on experiences with segmentation done wrong (a la Intel, Burroughs)? Just wondering. ron -- "Socialism is the road from capitalism to communism, but we never promised to feed you on the way!"-- old Russian saying "Socialism is the torturous road from capitalism to capitalism" -- new Russian saying (Wash. Post 9/16)