Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cbmvax!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!root44!jgh From: jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX Summary: 68000 vmunix is possible Message-ID: <591@root44.co.uk> Date: 1 Jun 88 09:42:44 GMT References: <211@laic.UUCP> <3663@cbmvax.UUCP> <1872@sugar.UUCP> <134@ssdis.UUCP> <237@obie.UUCP> <548@wsccs.UUCP> Reply-To: jgh@root44.UUCP (Jeremy G Harris) Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England Lines: 16 In article <548@wsccs.UUCP> terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one) writes: >.... Unf---ingortunately, Commodore had the idiocy to >use a 68000 instead of a 68010 or 68020, just like Atari, so neither >machine can properly support an MMU and are therefore not socketed, so the >whole thing is moot, anyway. There will never be a good vmunix for a >68000. Unless you do as one company ( Arete? I forget ) did, back in the early days of 68000 unix systems, and use two 68000 processors. The second one was used purely for handling the page faults, while the primary processor was on hold. 68k chips are even cheaper now than they were then.... Cheers, Jeremy -- Jeremy Harris jgh@root.co.uk