Does ST have address translation?

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From: wheels
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1987 14:03

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This article was in another group, but I've moved it to the atari st group
for obvious reasons...

In article <723@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > When it's finished, where could one obtain MINIX for the Atari?
> > By the way, I'm quite curious how the fork() call is implemented
> > (the Atari lacks address translation).
> 
> In user mode the GLUE chip adds an offset to all adresses. It's not
> the best memory management hardware ever, but it's enough to make
> MINIX possible.

Does anybody know what this refers to? I know GLUE does a lot of things,
but I hadn't heard about any translation of addresses.
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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
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Subject: Does ST have address translation?
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 10:03:05 EDT
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Keywords: ST GLUE address translation

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