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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Comfy chair)
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Subject: Re: brk's zero-fill behavior on VAXen :-)
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Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 16:06:28 EST
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Re: hardware support for DoD (Destroy on Deallocation)

Actually this idea was seriously suggested in one of the Multics papers
(if I remember correctly), a hardware line that would reset all bits
in a memory region. I surmise CPU speed has improved so much with respect
to memory speed that this is no longer a significant penalty.

	Ken