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Article #24379Re: Unix on ST (modest proposal)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1987 05:30
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1987 05:30
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> I am not a Unix guru but I think Henry has made a mistake saying
> that fork() can't be done without an MMU. Here's how:
I didn't say it was impossible, I said it was a problem. Not the same thing.
What you outline is probably the most feasible approach to fork() on an ST,
with the reservation that one would definitely want to use memory as the
backing device. Swapping on floppies is no fun -- we tried it, in the dim
distant past, with Mini-Unix.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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