Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why the 8086 architecture is wonderful :-)
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.184945.23152@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13428@ncoast.ORG> <85126@felix.UUCP> <4566@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <1845@basser.oz>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 18:49:45 GMT

In article <1845@basser.oz> steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell) writes:
>... fork() is difficult/expensive to perform without
>appropriate MMU hardware...

The Atari ST has no MMU, and Minix runs fine on it.  fork() is not as
cheap as it would be with an MMU, but the cost is manageable.
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