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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: Fri, 20-Feb-87 17:48:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 17:48:22 1987
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> Where did you guys get the idea that the PC has an MMU? Ever opened a hardware
> reference manual? 

Yes, the one for the 8088, which is the chip inside the PC.  They call it
"segment registers", but it's there.

(Once I had read the manual, I put it away on a dark back shelf in hopes
I would never have to see it again.  So far so good...)

> .EXE programs are patched at load time by the EXEC call so that they can
> be loaded anywhere in memory. There is no hardware support for it.

So the software is the pits, what else did you expect on a micro?
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