Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: andyr@rmii.com (Andy Rabagliati)
Reply-To: andyr@wizzy.com
Subject: Re: Just An Observation
Organization: W.Z.I.
Date: 29 Dec 1994 22:01:47 -0700
Message-ID: <3e047r$iar@rainbow.rmii.com>

Christian Fabre <fabre@osf.org> wrote:
>
>Why in these 6/8 years or so, did not they add a small Memory
>Management Unit to a T805?

The implication being that this is a small job.

Adding memory management to an architecture requires a fundamental
redesign of the chip.

Page faults also do not fit in well with the concept of lightweight 
parallel processing threads.

Cheers,     Andy!



