No kidding. It took years to flush out all the bugs (cough). But the point
may be that at the time it was done, it was an excellent cheap MMU with
cacheing.
> But there are other cases where hardware level simplicity translates
> into simple software support too. The difference is when the hardware
> and software people are allowed to get into the same room together.
Not always.
>
> I at least do not feel guilty in branding various Sparc mmu/cache
> implementations one way or another, simply because I have done the
> software support for the large majority of them.
Fair enough.
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