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   Message 24,929 of 26,127   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Pancho   
   Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing   
   03 Sep 24 02:22:30   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:20:51 +0100, Pancho wrote:   
      
   > The 386 slaughtered most of the Unix Minis of the time.   
      
   True, but the coming of RISC in 1989 or so completely turned the tables;   
   it wasn’t until about 1995 or thereafter that Intel was able to   
   successfully fight back.   
      
   > The PDP 11 was already a legacy predecessor of the Vax, did they even   
   > have demand paging?   
      
   No. The entire 64kiB address space was covered by just 8 page table   
   entries.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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