Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!omondi From: omondi@unc.UUCP (Amos Omondi) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Page Size and the Meaning of Life Message-ID: <425@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 11:21:39 EST Article-I.D.: unc.425 Posted: Tue Oct 29 11:21:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 00:12:24 EST Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 10 This is in answer to mail received from one Mark Flynn at Washington U. : 1) That really was 41. 42 is the answer to a lot of things, not just page size. 2) Something truly worthy of discussion in net.arch: Did Deep Thought have virtual memory ? My tentative answer is YES; i calulate the number of registers needed for address translation to be about 2 trillion.