Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 06:41:28 EST

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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.

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