Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: 11 process address space query - (nf) Message-ID: <220@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 20:26:24 EDT Article-I.D.: umn-cs.220 Posted: Sun Jun 5 20:26:24 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 22:18:07 EDT Lines: 11 #R:sri-arpa:-7700:umn-cs:6900004:000:365 umn-cs!smith Dec 14 15:19:00 1982 No way. The PDP-11 architecture is tied to a 16 bit address space the way the IBM 360 (and its children) are tied to a 24 bit address space. They came up with the Vax in the first place because they couldn't come up with a clean way to extend the 11's address space. So instead of trying to bull it through like IBM, they just built a new architecture. Rick.