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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
Message-ID: <6D=0MBggpc2@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Jan 90 08:09:28 GMT
References: <1576@aber-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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> If the MacIntosh or Atari ST had
> an MMU third party Unxies for them would have long since been
> available.

OS/9. MINIX. Just allocate some registers as base registers and use
reg+offset addressing modes. This is no more crippled than the 8086
is all the time.
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