Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

[Horst von Brand]

"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

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> So what we really need to do is get some custom "RAM blitter" into our
> hardware to do the memory copies needed for fast context switching and
> message passing.

Nope. The problem is that RAM is slow. No way around that.
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