Subject: Re: CTIX architecture
To: John E. Clark <jclark@synergy.encinitas.ca.us>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
List: current-users
Date: 12/08/1994 21:22:39
On December  8, you wrote:
> At 10:47 PM 12/8/94 -0500, Niklas Hallqvist wrote:
> >Well, there are ways to cheat, I think Appollo had a design with two
> >68000's one instruction out of sync with each other.  When the first
> >trapped on an illegal memory access the MM hardware brought in the
> >page and then the processors roles were switched so that the untrapped
> >processor could continue the process.  Neat no?  The 68010 could
> >restart instructions.  That was one of the reasons it existed.
> 
> Yeah, I forgot that the 10 was suppose to do the right thing, and
> thanks for reminding me about that apollo 'wundersystem'...

  Hmm...Somebody mentioned the AT&T UnixPC.  Hmmm.. :)  That would be
an interesting port... :)


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