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From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
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Subject: Re: Inverted Page Tables and Object Oriented Systems
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Date: 1 Mar 90 01:45:08 GMT
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In last fall's IEEE Computer Design Conference an interesting paper was
presented which described the design criteria for good MMU support of
Object-based Systems.

These criteria point to Inverted Page Tables, and software TLB reloading.
The HP-PA and IBM  RT are the best fit, although it appears that you
need more segments, so that you can assign a segment to an object.
(Of course, 64 bit addresses are a nice way to do this, although
they didn't take this approach :-)

The paper is:
"A Design of a Memory Management Unit for Object-based Systems" by
U. Tamachandran and
M. Khalidi



  Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9,  UUCP ames!lamaster
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