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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <2170@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 13:08:58 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... dkhusema@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) writes:
> 	(1)	MINIX _does_ run on an ATARI ST, a true 68000, thus it is 
> 	obviously possible to do a fork() on a 68000 ...

MINIX on the ST actually copies forked data during a context switch, giving
you extremely slow performance until you give up and exec() or exit() one
of the programs. This is also, by the way, how the old LSI-11 no-MMU UNIX
handled it, though that one did it by swapping the forked data on and off
a floppy. AT least MINIX doesn't try to do that.

No, the only way to do this is with position-independant code and base
registers for data. You'd be better off with an 80286, at this point...
since you've just picked up most of the '286 problems without any of
the advantages.

> 	(3)	True, a 68020 w/ MMU would sure help, but have you seen a
> 	amiga w/ 68020 and MMU recently?

No, but I've seen one with a 68020 and an MMU socket.
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