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From: newton@ils.nwu.edu (David Newton)
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Subject: Re: ET532 summary so far
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Date: 2 May 91 17:17:40 GMT
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In article <14107@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
> I'm not convinced you need an MMU for parallel processing.  If the board
> only supports 4 megs (you can't expand it to 16, right?) I couldn't
> imagine putting more than one process on it at a time anyway.

   if you're running Minix on it, this might be.  Seems to me that there's no
reason you couldn't run a different OS on it though.  The 6809 does fine
multitasking with OS/9.  'course, who wants to write it?  (Well, i do, but I
don't know enough about OS/9 yet.)

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