Richard Erlacher wrote on 23 January 1999 23:08
>This notion of cooking up or breathing new life into an old 8-bit model to
>run *NIX is probably a mite more than has been considered for one reason.
>*NIX tends to want to use virtual memory, without which many systems would
>quickly choke. The old CPM-capables don't support VM. A good reason for
>this is probably the lack of performance.
Many people have added VM support to applications running on non-MMU
hardware with little loss of performance. The Amiga has a few of these, most
notably Personal Paint by Cloanto. It can be done.
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Gareth Knight
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Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 07:35:34 GMT