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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: When will MacOS get virtual memory?
Message-ID: <5623@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 13 Oct 88 17:06:29 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <39513@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes:
>Someone really should tell Sun or Apollo.  They've produced many workstations
>with 68000's running UNIX, which DOES support virtual memory and page swapping.
>Gosh, wonder how they do it?

They don't, or at least Sun doesn't.  The Sun 1 used a 68000 and ran only a
swapping UNIX, not a page faulting (virtual memory) UNIX.  The Sun 1.5 was a
motherboard-swap upgrade to the Sun 1, using a 68010; it was the first Sun to
run vmunix.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"I was brought up in the other service; but I knew from the first that the
 Devil was my natural master and captain and friend.  I saw that he was in
 the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear."
    - Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"