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From: archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert)
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Subject: Re: MacMinix and protected mode
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Date: 12 Oct 90 14:10:47 GMT
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athame@athena.mit.edu (Dirk Karis) writes:

>I just saw the announcement of MacMinix in the comp.sys.mac newsgroup
>and was very interested;  I've been looking for a Unix for less money
>than A/UX ($1000) for awhile.  But the listing of features seems to
>imply that MacMinix doesn't take advantage of the 68030's protected
>mode.  Is this true?  Protected mode is a big unix feature that I find lacking
>from the macintosh operating system.

No it does not use protected mode.