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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 18:35:35 EST
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> To me, the only advantage of '386 is the virtual DOS machine capability.
> the ability to run DOS as a task under UNIX  seems neat.

The neat thing about the '386 is that it can run UNIX, unlike the 68020.
With the 68020 you have to put an MMU in your system.  However, hardware
guys at companies that make affordable computers seem to have this thing
against putting MMUs in.  With the '386, no silly hardware person can
leave out the MMU.

Of course, the hardware guy could divide the physical address space into
disjoint pages, each less than 4k bytes, if he really wanted to stop
me from running UNIX...
-- 
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