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In article <3396@netmbx.UUCP>, hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes:
> In article <7827@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>in article <499@nixpbe.UUCP>, mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) says:
>>> Xref: cbmvax comp.sys.atari.st:19823 dnet.atari:0
> [Helios is pretty much UNIX-alike and POSIX compatible]
>>What's missing is memory protection.  The only way multiple tasks can be
>>isolated from one another at all under Helios, or any other Transputer
>>operating system, is to be running on different transputers.  All other
>>Workstation-type machines offer hardware memory protection on a task by
>>task basis.
> 
> True. 
> 
> But memory protection doesn't fit into the Transputer architecture (or
> in my view of the ... :-)
> 
> Well, everybody wants Unix. Given Minix (max. program size = 64k+64k)
> I'd like a T212-based machine to show up. This T is less than $75 and
> (kind of) binary compatible to the T414...
> 
> If a task fits into 64k, this is the one...
> 
> hase

Huh ?   Minix ST supports applications up to the amount of free memory
available. Minix _PC_ is the 64k I/D limited version ( due to segments )

Minix ST is quite runnable and reasonably stable from what I have found
(at least if you program by the rules :-))

(and only US $79.95 too)

BOB