Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : Pancho
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Tue Sep 03 2024 02:22:30

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:20:51 +0100, Pancho wrote:

> The 386 slaughtered most of the Unix Minis of the time.

True, but the coming of RISC in 1989 or so completely turned the tables;
it wasn’t until about 1995 or thereafter that Intel was able to
successfully fight back.

> The PDP 11 was already a legacy predecessor of the Vax, did they even
> have demand paging?

No. The entire 64kiB address space was covered by just 8 page table
entries.

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