Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 13:45:54 EST


On Sul, 2005-10-02 at 22:55 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> The HP2114 and DEC KL10/20 were able to dereference a chain of indirect bits
> back in the 70's (complete with warnings that hardware wedges could occur if
> an indirect reference formed a loop or pointed at itself).

The KL10 has an 8 way limit. The PDP-6 didn't but then it also lacked an
MMU.


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