C bug causes double panic

Ken Seefried iii ken at gatech.edu
Tue Mar 28 10:43:46 AEST 1989


In article <9989 at ihlpb.ATT.COM> gregg at ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) writes:
>From article <18227 at gatech.edu>, by ken at gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii):
>> In article <2863 at daisy.UUCP> david at daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) writes:

[me wondering out loud about what the 80286 was designed for]

>
>Multics comes to mind...  64K segments, 4 access levels, transfer
>gates...
>

I thought about that, but it is my understanding (which surely could
be wrong) that multics is based on dynamicly allocated, variable size
segments of potentially large size.  Certainly, the 80286 doesn't fit
this criteria with its fixed size, 64K segments.  Also, doesn't
Multics use more than 4 rings of protection? 

Gates are a different story...a really good feature of the 80286.

The 80386 *IS*, however, Multics-on-a-chip...

	...ken seefried iii
	   ken at gatech.edu



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