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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What should GNU run on (was Re: what kinds of things . . .)
Message-ID: <2341@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 18:05:03 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I don't have any proprietary knowledge about Sun's MMU, but in order to
>write code for my WhizBang-2000 Sparcstation clone, I don't have to.

Yes, but the intent is that GNU ultimately include a kernel, and to
write VM code for your WhizBang-2000 SPARCStation clone, you *do* have
to know how the WhizBang-2000's MMU works....