no significant bugs in 80286 virtual memory

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <326 at siswat.UUCP> buck at siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
| There have been several postings in comp.unix.microport recently
| intimating that the "experts" know of a serious bug in the 80286.
| It seems some 80286 instructions are not restartable after a virtual
| memory fault, therefore a virtual memory operating system
| is impossible on the 80286.

  I haven't tried OS/2 yet, but the documentation clearly claims that
virtual memory is done in 64k chunks. I doubt that IBM would have let it
out the door if there was a problem such as you describe, and I see
nothing in the current buglist which would indicate problems restarting
any pagefault.
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