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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Virtualizable RISC Instruction Sets
Message-ID: <30036@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 17:07:56 GMT
References: <24844@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <24844@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
>Has any attention been given to which of the new RISC architectures are truly
>virtualizable (in the strict VM sense)?
>
>(One reason that this is still interesting (to me) is because you can do
>certain capability/object things with virtual machines fairly efficiently.)

You've aroused my curiosity. What can you do efficiently if your arhictecture
is virtualizable? I'm posting this instead of replying, because other people
are probably interested as well.


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