bit addressing, alignment, bus errors, and VM (was Re: PDP-10 arch question)

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Mon Oct 26 08:32:27 1998

> One other interesting aspect is that by convention, the OS assumed
> that all of the top half of virtual memory belonged to the OS. Another
> is that the hardware was the child of Seymore Cray.

Are you certain of that? Cray designed the CDC 160, and had a hand in the
CDC 6000s, but I do not think the STAR.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Mon Oct 26 1998 - 08:32:27 GMT