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From: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
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Subject: Copy-on-write
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Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 11:23:47 EST
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   If you don't have per-segment page tables, then you don't have hardware
support for copy-on-write of pages, only segments.  I consider this a
pretty serious deficiency.


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    Dan Frank
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