[Info-vax] In memoriam: 10 years since Alpha's passing away.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <iv273r$5af$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> It's not a SYSGEN issue, as it is not a software thing. It's a hardware 
> limitation which is very hard.

   Hardware limitations kept earlly VAXen from addressing more than 30
   bits in hardware space.

   SYSGEN can limit how much virtual address space you can map, due to
   controlling the size of the map (number of page table entries in the
   process header).