[SunRescue] good news

[StouSandalskitangui at cell2000.net]

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> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Stefan Skoglund
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 14:36
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] good news
>
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> Stou Sandalski wrote:
> > bit better... yea I mean the new procs have some nifty features all the
> > pre-fetch queing, pipelining, superscalar operations, and whatever else
> > they've put on the newer pentiums... and they are nice, but it
> seems like
>
> The memory management facilities in the 386 is impressive. Only problem
> is that windows isn't really using it.

And by impressive if you mean bloated, you are right...

> Segmented paged memory is complicated (probably why Linux isn't
> using it) but if someone rewrote multics to use the 386 MMU ??

I am not quite sure what your definition of "Segmented paged memory" is, but
as far as I know, linux uses paged segmented memory...

Stou