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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: PDP-8 Story
Message-ID: <1384@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-May-85 11:56:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1384
Posted: Fri May 17 11:56:11 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 18-May-85 01:06:44 EDT
References: <1864@topaz.UUCP> <3500002@pbear.UUCP> <590@spp2.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <590@spp2.UUCP> heiss@spp2.UUCP (Robert Heiss) writes:
>I'm intrigued by the VM overhead argument -- a paged-address-space CPU
>connected to virtual memory with the same fixed page size -- has this
>experiment been performed?

i may be misunderstanding what you are suggesting, but doesn't the
IBM S/370 and 370-XA architecture do exactly this?  hardware pagesize
is 4K and the "priviledged" instructions for page manipulation work
with 4K pages.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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