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[Rick Kelly]

Johnny Billquist said:

>> There's actually a cheesy way to do demand paging with microprocessors
>> that don't support demand paging (such as the original 68000--another
>> "16 bit" machine).  The way to do this is to run two processors in parallel
>> but skewed by one instruction.  If the first one does a bad memory fetch,
>> then the second one will not have fetched the instruction causing the
>> fault so contains restartable machine state.  Masscomp sold a machine
>> like this once.

>Didn't the first Apollos do this?

And also the Sun 1.

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