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: Unix on ST (modest proposal) Message-ID: <7509@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 00:30:03 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7509 Posted: Sun Jan 11 00:30:03 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 00:30:03 EST References: <8701022135.AA07189@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <7472@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > I am not a Unix guru but I think Henry has made a mistake saying > that fork() can't be done without an MMU. Here's how: I didn't say it was impossible, I said it was a problem. Not the same thing. What you outline is probably the most feasible approach to fork() on an ST, with the reservation that one would definitely want to use memory as the backing device. Swapping on floppies is no fun -- we tried it, in the dim distant past, with Mini-Unix. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry