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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 11 process address space query - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 20:26:24 EDT
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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.