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From: simon@mcvax.UUCP (Simon Kenyon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: unix DOES need an MMU (well I think so!)
Message-ID: <933@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 08:19:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 08:19:15 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 05:44:01 EST
Reply-To: simon@mcvax.UUCP (Simon Kenyon)
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what about all the relocation fancy footwork that unix does
to handle the per process data area
what about multiple processes
are we proposing going back to the dark ages of rsx (unmapped)
where programs were linked for different load addresses
memory mangement is required for two reasons
protection and reloxcation
the first you can live without (that is if you never have pointers
which point nowhere)
the second is kind of hard to live without
--
simon kenyon
simon@mcvax.UUCP
national software centre, dublin, ireland