brent@itm.UUCP (Brent) (03/20/85)
X Let's speculate on Virtual Memory. Will P-E come out with Virtual Memory Xelos anytime? Anytime soon? Well maybe. P-E is sticking pretty close to AT&T on UNIX. AT&T is starting to distribute Unix 5.2.2 - a virtual memory system on the 3B*s. Perkin-Elmer is starting to implement virtual processes under OS/32. What about hardware? According to a local P-E analyst, Greg Redmond (super sharp guy, and yes, I'm trying to get him on the net) The instruction set of the P-E is modeled very closely after the IBM 360 series (the every-instruction-including-the-kitchen-sink design philosophy). In fact, Greg says P-E has all the hardward memory management stuff you'd ever want, just that they've never used it. Apparantly after they got the hardward designed they found a niche market in real-time applications, so they've never bothered with the virtual stuff. Will Virtual Xelos ever happen? Maybe. Anybody else care to speculate on if and when it would happen? -- Brent Laminack (akgua!itm!brent)