Subject: Re: wikipedia article
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/13/2006 06:23:46
Johnny Billquist said:
>> There's actually a cheesy way to do demand paging with microprocessors
>> that don't support demand paging (such as the original 68000--another
>> "16 bit" machine). The way to do this is to run two processors in parallel
>> but skewed by one instruction. If the first one does a bad memory fetch,
>> then the second one will not have fetched the instruction causing the
>> fault so contains restartable machine state. Masscomp sold a machine
>> like this once.
>Didn't the first Apollos do this?
And also the Sun 1.
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