Date   : Sat, 04 Jun 1983 22:03:36 EDT
From   : Ron <FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA>
Subject: Re: S-100 Unix, and the wonderful NS16032

Let's not start the Nth in a series of "my CPU is better than yours"
contests.  Least of all should tout a manufacturer's literature.  The
limitation of single chip CPU based machines is the design of their
bus.

Has a manufacturer of a "micro-mainframe" come up with a mainframe
equivalent bus, in terms of throughput?

Finally, couldn't a 68010 swap the MMU's segment registers when a
non-existant page gets accessed in a new segment?  Might be a tad
slower but you'd only need one MMU with a few segments.

As you said: "Because it hasn't been done yet..."  Let's not make
assumptions.  Rather, ask the man who owns both and has compared them.

(ron)

[A diehard empiricist]