Frank@sri-unix (07/02/82)
After wading through the intermixed series of exchanges on the MC68000 "page fault problem" some time back, I was recently asked what the outcome was, and I wasn't sure. Would someone care to briefly summarize without starting another flame series (if that's possible)? The reason for concern here is that some people are proposing to standardize on the Motorola "68" family, possibly into the late '90's. That bothers me alot - not just because of the discussion referred to above, but because hardware is not the thing you want to standardize - and maybe not software either - at least not for the next twenty years! Five years - maybe. Anyway, the second question was: how well done are the current implementations of the 68000 in handling the supposed page fault "problem", especially, the Unix ports. Does the Z8000 series fare better in this aspect? What should we look out for when evaluating these systems for use in small-scale (4-6 user) environments? --Frank