Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: VLIW
Message-ID: <1988Nov16.180441.15147@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <70@armada.UUCP> <28200228@urbsdc> <5087@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> <556@m3.mfci.UUCP> <5097@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 88 18:04:41 GMT

In article <5097@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> spectre@mit-vax.UUCP (Joseph D. Morrison) writes:
>It's really a very clever scheme!  The only bug?  It's not worth the
>hardware cost...

There is also a small problem with trying to make the situation look
sensible when an interrupt or a trap strikes.  I don't think any of
those beasts had an MMU (too old), but taking a page fault in a system
like that would really be something.  And you thought the 68020's "stack
puke" was bad...