Re: Separating Processes and Nodes Bill Frantz (frantz@netcom.com)
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:09:30 -0700

At 5:56 AM -0700 6/9/97, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>Distinguishing processes and nodes would eliminate all of these, and
>would in addition alleviate the trend toward more process constituents
>ar architectures have more and larger registers. The Version 9 SPARC
>is a particularly painful example -- 8 general purpose 64 bit
>registers plue 8 windows of 16 registers, each 64 bits.... == 1088
>bytes of *integer* state.

On some of the KeyKOS ports, we had considered having a "registers page" instead of a registers node.


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