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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <559@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 09:14:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 09:14:29 1987
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RE:  Unfortunately, the machines that MINIX currently runs on do not
have the memory management hardware to support the copy-on-write
interrupt (ala DEC VAX processors).  Nice try though

Not quite true.  The 286 in protected mode will nicely generate
restartable exceptions when attempting to write a read-only data
segment.

marty
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