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Article #683Re: Pure speculation re:80586
From: Daniel Ake CAROSONE
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 00:52
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 00:52
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In article <7680003@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>, paulc@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Paul Carroll) writes: > you indicated above. The secret is to get the OS > to use the capabilities of the chip. Does anyone > know if the SYS V Unix that runs on the 386 uses these > capabilities? Or does it run in a strictly flat memory > space? When I saw the details of the i386 and i486 adressing, segmenatation, virtual memory within segments, etc. I said to myself: "This chip is designed to run MULTICS." All we have to do is get rid of messy-dos :-) For those who are not aware: MULTICS was an operating system designed by CS people with a 'wishlist'. It was given up on, as the technology at the time was not good enough to run it. UNIX started life as a single- user much-simplified version of multics, with a much simpler (flat) memory model. Now is the time to resurrect it!.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uluru5!danielce From: danielce@ecr.mu.oz.au (Daniel Ake CAROSONE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Pure speculation re:80586 Summary: MULTICS Message-ID: <5500@munnari.oz.au> Date: 17 Sep 90 00:52:53 GMT References: <3907@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <7680003@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 18