Port-m68k archive
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]
Re: DUAL Systems documentation
On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Erik Fair wrote:
> An aside, before Motorola shipped the mc68010, I saw another solution to the
> faulted-instruction state save problem from MassComp: their CPU board had two
> mc68k CPUs on it, one running a cycle behind the other, so a page fault would
> stop them both, the missing page could be paged in (I think they designed
> their own MMU; long since forgotten), and then execution resumed on the
> second, following CPU which hadn't taken the memory-access fault. Throw
> hardware at the problem ...
Isn't that what the first Apollo did? (DN100)..
Home |
Main Index |
Thread Index |
Old Index