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The CDC 6400 hardware has a base and bounds register which controls
access to ECS (in addition to similar base and bounds registers for
CM). In the system as implemented, the ECS bound was always set to
zero while user code was running. After solving some minor bookkeeping
problems, we could have given a subprocess direct access to a single
file data block through this single base bounds pair. Thus the cost
for each ECS file access to such a data block would be reduced from
about 300 microseconds to about 3 microseconds.
Paul McJones
1998-06-22