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The Art of Unix Programming

Posted Feb 15, 2003 4:19 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137)
Parent article: The Art of Unix Programming

Like Unix, OS/2 was built to be multitasking and would not run on a machine without an MMU (early versions simulated an MMU using the 286's memory segmentation).

Is this right? IIRC Xenix ran on a 286, so it must have had an MMU.

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Re: MMU

Posted Feb 17, 2003 20:19 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

It could do segmenting, but not paging.