Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:41:28 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <dlitz@dlitz.net> said:
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> So what we really need to do is get some custom "RAM blitter" into our > hardware to do the memory copies needed for fast context switching and > message passing.
Nope. The problem is that RAM is slow. No way around that. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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