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From: danielce@ecr.mu.oz.au (Daniel Ake CAROSONE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Pure speculation re:80586
Summary: MULTICS
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Date: 17 Sep 90 00:52:53 GMT
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In article <7680003@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>, paulc@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Paul Carroll) writes:
> 	you indicated above.  The secret is to get the OS
> 	to use the capabilities of the chip.  Does anyone 
> 	know if the SYS V Unix that runs on the 386 uses these
> 	capabilities?  Or does it run in a strictly flat memory
> 	space?


When I saw the details of the i386 and i486 adressing, segmenatation,
virtual memory within segments, etc. I said to myself:
  "This chip is designed to run MULTICS." All we have to do is get
rid of messy-dos :-)

For those who are not aware: MULTICS was an operating system designed
by CS people with a 'wishlist'. It was given up on, as the technology
at the time was not good enough to run it. UNIX started life as a single-
user much-simplified version of multics, with a much simpler (flat)
memory model. Now is the time to resurrect it!.