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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1987 02:25

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> ...a clone of V7 Unix WITH source code, and I'd think some clever person
> could port it to the ST..

Doing any form of Unix on the ST is hard because of the lack of MMU.  The
IBM PC, revolting though it is, does have the half-baked excuse for an MMU
that the 8086 itself supplies.  Unix on the ST is not impossible, just a
lot of work and rather awkward -- fork() is the bad part on a system with
no relocation hardware.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry

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