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From: tg@sfmin.UUCP (T.Glinos)
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Subject: Re: Unix w/o Memory Mgt.; what the IBM PC could have been
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Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 11:21:45 EST
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> In several of the recent postings on IBM PC's, it's been argued that Unix
> can/can't run without memory management; counterexamples have usually been
> based on unix look-alikes, however.
> 
> In fact, Western Electric briefly provided a Unix without a need for any
> memory management, called "Mini-Unix", which ran on the PDP 11/03.  This
> was done by swapping whole process images to disk each time a context switch
> was done, in order to avoid having to do any relocation.

SCO has a version of UNIX called XENIX which does run
on an IBM-PC. It does it very nicely by the way.
XENIX System V should be available some time soon.

(Of course all the standard disclaimers apply)
	tom glinos