> "Back in the old days", a lot of VAX-11/750's running BSD Unix > crashed because of parity errors in their TLB's. 750's running > VMS "didn't have this problem", because VMS would silently work > around it; BSD grew that code--see, for example, <[email protected]>. > Then bits could flip all the time with nobody noticing!
nobody noticed, or the os reloaded the tlb? a tlb is usually just a cache, and if it's parity protected obviously one could just reload it on error. - erik
