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From: BECKER%HUMBER.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Bruce Becker)
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Subject: Re: MAC and Minix
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Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 16:05:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 16:05:16 1987
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Actually your idea is more in keeping with the 8086 achitecture, an has some
reflection in the ideas of the MAC segment manager... HOWEVER, it seems a waste
of a perfectly good linear address space (lacking in 8086 of course...)
It seems that what is missing is tne idea of Memory management, which is probab
ly impossible to do in software... Segmented address schemes are a sort of a su
bset of that idea, and havin 16 instead of 1 Megs to work with IS atrractive...
I'm not sure you need to do much differently on 68000 that on 8086, but the C c
ompiler will be interesting from point of view of code generation...

good luck, any who choose such approach...   cheers, bb