IBM System/38 support for capability-based addressing

  • Authors:
  • Merle E. Houdek;Frank G. Soltis;Roy L. Hoffman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISCA '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

The IBM System/38 provides capability-based addressing. This paper describes how support is divided among architectural definition, microcode, and hardware to minimize overhead for this function.