[rescue] 128 bits...

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> > You don;t solve real-world problems by using this type of storage
> > arrangement, you solve programming/logical problems...
> 
> Funny, that's how discs work.  You don't have any real-world data on
> your discs?

No, my point was the motivation is to ease the coding on the
application end, for each OS developed, there are thousands upon
thousands of applications written, well except for early MacOS ;^)
 
> > > You could, I suppose, virtually map things at nice offsets, and
> > > physically map them against a table (a la TLB), but you'd still
> have
> > > to do a lot of song-and-dance behind the scenes.
> >
> > Naw, the OS would. ;^)
> 
> Well, -someone- has to write that OS, and that mapping still imposes
> a runtime overhead.

Someone has to write that OS - ONCE. Then it is done...

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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