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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ATW - Any News ?
Message-ID: <3396@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 15:49:53 GMT
References: <499@nixpbe.UUCP> <7827@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <7827@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <499@nixpbe.UUCP>, mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) says:
>> Xref: cbmvax comp.sys.atari.st:19823 dnet.atari:0
[Helios is pretty much UNIX-alike and POSIX compatible]
>What's missing is memory protection.  The only way multiple tasks can be
>isolated from one another at all under Helios, or any other Transputer
>operating system, is to be running on different transputers.  All other
>Workstation-type machines offer hardware memory protection on a task by
>task basis.

True. 

But memory protection doesn't fit into the Transputer architecture (or
in my view of the ... :-)

Well, everybody wants Unix. Given Minix (max. program size = 64k+64k)
I'd like a T212-based machine to show up. This T is less than $75 and
(kind of) binary compatible to the T414...

If a task fits into 64k, this is the one...

hase
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