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Article #33203Re: When will MacOS get virtual memory?
From: Tim Maroney
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 17:06
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 17:06
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In article <39513@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes:
>Someone really should tell Sun or Apollo. They've produced many workstations
>with 68000's running UNIX, which DOES support virtual memory and page swapping.
>Gosh, wonder how they do it?
They don't, or at least Sun doesn't. The Sun 1 used a 68000 and ran only a
swapping UNIX, not a page faulting (virtual memory) UNIX. The Sun 1.5 was a
motherboard-swap upgrade to the Sun 1, using a 68010; it was the first Sun to
run vmunix.
--
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"I was brought up in the other service; but I knew from the first that the
Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in
the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear."
- Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"
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