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From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Press Release: Intel announces 80960 architecture
Message-ID: <21139@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 88 21:30:15 GMT
References: <3358@omepd> <10320@steinmetz.ge.com> <3363@omepd> <949@ima.ISC.COM>
Reply-To: tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
Lines: 12
Keywords: 80960, RISC, embedded control

In article <949@ima.ISC.COM> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes:
| I would be fascinated to hear about high reliability embedded applications
| that use virtual memory. Seems to me you'd need a pretty artful designer to
| come up with a system that satisfies the sort of real-time constraints
| generally present in embedded systems while handling page faults.

Memory management does not imply demand-paged virtual memory.  It can be
used simply for protection checking (to catch errant programs before
they do real damage).

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amdcad.amd.com)