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Article #22091Re: IBM PC prehistory
From: Phil Ronzone
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 19:23
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 19:23
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In article <9308@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>The MMU is certainly a difference when it comes to implementing UNIX on a
>680x0 system. But that's an OS concern, it shouldn't have anything to do
>with an ABI standard. That is, after all, Applications Binary Interface.
>Under 680x0 systems, MMU code is supervisor (kernel) mode only; it can't be
>run at the user mode level under any circumstance.
Not so. Page size and above all segment ARE visible to the binary.
Loadable libraries, shared memory see MMU characteristics as well
(or see the programmed characteristics of the MMU).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!maddog!pkr From: pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory Message-ID: <2773@odin.SGI.COM> Date: 12 Jan 90 19:23:38 GMT References: <1576@aber-cs.UUCP> <9308@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 17