Re: [Milkymist port] virtual memory management

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2013-05-29 21:17, Rhialto wrote:
> On Wed 29 May 2013 at 19:51:15 +0200, Yann Sionneau wrote:
> > 1°) some code somewhere generates an I(nstruction) TLB miss in the
> > MMU, this leads to a CPU exception, CPU then branches immediately to
> > the "ITLB miss" exception vector.
>
> (Side issue I've been wondering about: Why does almost everybody these
> days call their Address Translation Cache now Translation Lookaside
> Buffer?  Why prefer vague IBM terminology over a clear Motorola term?)

And why either, when the VAX already had a TLB back in the 70s, where 
TLB actually stood for TransLation Buffer. Why did someone feel the need 
to add a "lookaside", which is rather bogus. And I think Motorola came 
last to the table... :-)

        Johnny