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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: offloading the protocols
Message-ID: <20744@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 88 19:13:15 GMT
References: <8803151620.AA10109@windsor.cray.com> <[A.ISI.EDU]17-Mar-88.05:12:56.CERF>
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In article <[A.ISI.EDU]17-Mar-88.05:12:56.CERF> CERF@A.ISI.EDU writes:
	[discussion of simplifying and speeding up network/host interface]
>
>Perhaps what is needed is a way to associate virtual memory with places
>in the networking space. Writing to virtual memory would be like writing
>to the network. PDP-11's had the concept of associating certain words of
>memory with I/O channels. 

	Doesn't Apollo's Domain [proprietary] networked operating
system do just that?