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From: buyse@convexe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: Unix OS for //s?
Message-ID: <64800013@convexe>
Date: 23 Feb 88 16:35:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convexe.UUCP!buyse    Feb 23 10:35:00 1988


I don't believe that there is any intrinsic limitation of the 65c816
processor that would prevent it from being the cpu of a Unix-like
operating system.  However, the requirements for efficient pre-emptive
multitasking are more than those just on the central processor.  The
entire architecture of the machine has to be built with an eye on
multitasking.  Multitasking OS's are incredibly complex and are very
demanding on on the computer's resources.  Just the context switch
requires a fair amount of fiddling.

-Russell Buyse.

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