> Ah yes, the VVAX option... another attempted graft on the VAX architecture >tree. Unlike vectors, it never got as far as a real implementation.
According to VVAX / VAX Security Kernel developers, while it was never released externally as a product, there was internal proof-of-concept implementation on 11/730 and production quality implementation on 8800, the latter field-tested in 1989 at a number of external customers' sites. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.106971 http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tjaeger/cse543-f06/papers/vax_vmm.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RISP.1990.63834 http://www.scs.stanford.edu/nyu/02sp/sched/vmm.pdf And here is somewhat more detailed technical description: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.1991.1021630 http://mprc.pku.cn/mentors/training/ISCAreading/1991/p380-hall/p380-hall.pdf _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
