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From: souva@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Tue, 02 Jul 1996 16:18:14 -0700
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In article <31D9AE36.3993D656@lambert.org> Terry Lambert
<terry@lambert.org> writes:

>   John S. Dyson wrote:
>   [ ... ]

>   ] FreeBSD has added optional pmap entry points to support
>   ] microcoded TLB's better.

>   This hurts, I think, in the non-microcoded TLB case (Alpha, PPC).

PPC 603 _have_ microcoded TLBs.

-- 
	Ignatios Souvatzis (also ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de)
Cute quote: "Bill Gates should limit his salary to the number of bytes
 addressable by the latest version of MS-DOS, and be taxed based on the
 number of bytes of RAM needed by the latest version of MS-Windows"
 (PI92AE@pt.hk-r.se)