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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Criteria ... [really: are N designs better than 1?]
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Date: 23 May 89 19:33:14 GMT
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doug carmean (doug@ross.UUCP) writes:

	"I keep forgetting how bad competition is for the electronics
	industry.  Without this terrible competition we would still be
	paying >$10,000 for personal computers."

I had to read this twice before I understood the real contents.
Let's please leave the sarcasm out of our postings? .. it doesn't add
anything to a technical discussion.

	"The reference MMU is different from the MMU that Sun has been
	using in most of its SPARC based products.  I don't quite see
	the problem with this.  A well written operating system only
	requires a change to a single driver to port it to a new MMU."

An MMU is not a "device," to be "driven" easily by a single module.
Big MMU differences cause ripples throughout the kernel, and in extreme
cases can affect user code.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!orca!frip!andrew)      [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]