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From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] 68000 vs. 8086 ( was Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:59:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57757a21.LPn+mSLKqXszpxKR%schily@schily.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W6ugA9A9FR6yFEyL=fupTkRL2Xm3-kO3630NCpsigi=dQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Still, the point that the 68451 MMU was pretty lame is well taken. The
> segment table was too small (96 entries?) and it was clearly designed to
> support segmented memory rather than paging. It is inadequate to the latter
> task. The 68851 available for the 68020 got it right; supposedly this could
> be used with the 68010 as well, but I don't know that anyone ever tried
> that in a real product.

We at H.Berthold AG in Berlin did manage to use 12 68451 in parallel for our 
virtual UNOS variant.

Jörg

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-30 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-30 13:44 [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs Noel Chiappa
2016-06-30 14:28 ` William Cheswick
2016-06-30 17:17 ` [TUHS] 68000 vs. 8086 ( was Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs) scj
2016-06-30 17:27   ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-30 18:52   ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:59     ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2016-06-30 20:06       ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 20:27         ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-30 19:23 ` [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs John Cowan
2016-06-30 18:49 [TUHS] 68000 vs. 8086 ( was Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs) Clem Cole

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