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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Recent Motorola ad seen in Byte
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 13:10:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 13:10:39 1987
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> ... BTW, in my
> readings of the 386 architectural manual + data sheets I didn't find anything
> horrendously wrong with the 386 MMU ...
>  Perhaps you would care to elaborate on the problem?

Notice the absence of any way to flush a specific entry out of the TLB, as
opposed to flushing the whole thing.  Not a disaster, but a distinct problem
in certain applications.
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"If you want PL/I, you know       Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
where to find it." -- DMR         {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry