At 13:55 9/14/95 -0400, Jonathan Shapiro wrote:
>I've heard Norm (I think it was Norm, anyway) say that the general
>keys node was never in practice shared to his knowledge. Do you know
>of a counterexample?
No. The implementations I know of forbid it. However, if a compelling case were to be made, the modifications to allow it would not be hard.
>So my basic view is that it doesn't make a lot of sense for two
>domains to share registers in general.
>
>Any takers want to make the case for the other side?
I don't think there is much of a case if you only have 1 keys node. If you have more than one, as you might in a 64 bit implementation, then there are a large number of options which would make an interesting evening over beers. One would be to allow the factory components node to be directly addressable as part of a gate jump.
>Thanks for the clarification about the domain creator. Any reason you
>can see why the domain tool should not rescind the component nodes
>before constructing the domain?
Unneeded overhead.
Bill