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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: 16k vs 68k vs 432
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But Tom wasn't complaining about the lack of features as much as he was
complaining about misdesigned features.  An MMU with 4KB pages shouldn't take
any more design time or silicon than one with 512 byte pages.  I won't
get into the debate about which is better, but there really is no reason for
a chip which does something in a fashion which is awkward for software to
deal with when doing it the right way wouldn't have taken any more time or
silicon.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy