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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <1410@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 15:59:28 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <2126@haddock.ISC.COM> <1497@osiris.UUCP> <1958@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: ROMable UNIX

> In article <3100@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 	The proposal is to put Unix (the kernel and/or root file system) in
> ROM. The problems are that it's hard to change and there may be problems
> with mounting a writeable filesystem on a read-only root.

The HP Integral handled this by copying the ROM to RAM at boot time, and
keeping the file system in a RAM disk. It's also the first system I know of
in which the RAM disk is allocated and freed as needed (the second is the
Commodore Amiga).
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