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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Memory handling in MINIX ?
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Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 23:02:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 23:02:39 1987
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> > Is a MMU a standard part of a pc ?
> 
>      No.  One of the major failings of the PC architecture...

Wrong, the PC has an MMU, just not a particularly good one.  The box does
not have to have protection, demand paging support, etc. etc., to be called
an MMU.  The PC's MMU does relocation only.
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