Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Forwarded message Message-ID: <7472@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 21:25:59 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7472 Posted: Sat Jan 3 21:25:59 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Jan-87 21:25:59 EST References: <8701022135.AA07189@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > ...a clone of V7 Unix WITH source code, and I'd think some clever person > could port it to the ST.. Doing any form of Unix on the ST is hard because of the lack of MMU. The IBM PC, revolting though it is, does have the half-baked excuse for an MMU that the 8086 itself supplies. Unix on the ST is not impossible, just a lot of work and rather awkward -- fork() is the bad part on a system with no relocation hardware. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry