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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??]
- Message-ID: <f82R02481eLw01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 03:09:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.173817.21681@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.173817.21681@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
- tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
-
- > gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes:
-
- > >(BTW, the 68000 machines do not usually have one of these. This makes
- > >the porting task much harder, not easier.)
- >
- > I am not sure what you mean. But I never claimed it was easy. :-)
- This was a joke but I forgot to put in ':-)'. What I was implying is that
- I know that you can put Unix on a 68000 without a MMU (Minix does this) but
- it is a lot of additional work beyond the port that uses a MMU. Also the
- resulting system will usually lack protection between processes address spaces
- and virtual memory support among other things.
-
-
- > When the going gets tough, the tough get going! Besides, there
- > is no need to wait, the hp300 stuff in the Net2 code supports the
- > HP 68020 and 68030 workstations, so I (We) have a lot more to go with than
- > Jolitz did for the 386.
-
- Hmmm. I didn't realize that some 680x0 work had already been released in
- Net-2. Go get'up Tiger.
-
- --
- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
- | what is wrong with it.
-