Re: upgrading MacII to a 68030 machine

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From: Paul Campbell
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1989 05:18

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In article <653@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>By the way, this is more of a comp.sys.mac.aux question, but does A/UX do
>virtual memory? And is that the reason why you need an MC68851 chip to use
>A/UX, or is there another reason.

Yes it does have VM, but like most other Unixes, even if it didn't have
VM (ie it swapped), it would still an MMU to do process address space
switching and to protect processes and the kernel from each other.

	Paul

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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
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Subject: Re: upgrading MacII to a 68030 machine
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