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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: 68K MMU is good for something
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Date: Sat, 31-Dec-83 23:51:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 31 23:51:35 1983
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I agree with Allan Gottlieb that the Motorola chip is just right for
implementing the buddy system, but I have never understood what the
buddy system was good for.  I've never been able to envision anything
that I would use it for, given that dynamically-allocated memory areas
are seldom nice neat powers of 2.  I appreciate the potential for
parallelism, but accelerating a turkey to the speed of light has never
struck me as a useful approach.  Maybe it's just that it's late and
I'm a little tired; is there something I've been missing all these years?
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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