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- From: "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:28:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Do I need an MMU to run NetBSD?
- Message-ID: <31596@lyssa.owl.de>
- Organization: Private Internet Ostwestfalen-Lippe
-
- C. Dew wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Do I need an MMU to run NetBSD?":
- > I was wondering whether I could run un*x ...
-
- Unix? If you are talking about "NetBSD" say "NetBSD". Unix is a very
- generic name for a class of operating systems.
-
- > ... on my computer without throwing
- > away my Blizzard 1220 and buying an `030 or higher, ...
-
- A real Unix implementation (with virtual memory and memory protection)
- is not possible without an MMU.
-
- Anyway if you were able to get an external 68851 MMU for your 68020
- (and a FPU of course) and your Blizzard 1220 had a socket for it you
- could run NetBSD and probably Linux on it.
-
- But it will be much easier to get a 68030 board (with FPU and REAL 68030,
- NO 68EC030).
-
- --
- Matthias Scheler
- tron@lyssa.owl.de
-
-