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From: ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: A/Ux
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Date: 18 Apr 88 12:00:05 GMT
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In article <329NETOPRMS@NCSUVM> NETOPRMS@NCSUVM.BITNET (Michael Steele) writes:
>Why doesn't someone write UNIX for the GS?  Think what that would do for the GS
>market!  An AFFORDABLE UNIX system!
Porting Minix would probably be the best thing, since it exists for the PC
and for the Atari ST (I'm told)
It would be an affordable V7 Unix system, though, not 4.3BSD.
2.10BSD (which is as much of 4.3 as would fit in a PDP11)

You could use the Intel-like segentation warts of the 65c816 and have most of
the same effects as having hardware memory management.  That's how Minix does
it.  Check out comp.os.minix (or info-minix-request@udel.edu?) for details.

Just be careful with your code generation (you'd want a different C compiler
to develop code INSIDE the Minix environment) and all should be well.
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