[comp.sys.atari.st] Does ST have address translation?

wheels@mks.UUCP (09/18/87)

This article was in another group, but I've moved it to the atari st group
for obvious reasons...

In article <723@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > When it's finished, where could one obtain MINIX for the Atari?
> > By the way, I'm quite curious how the fork() call is implemented
> > (the Atari lacks address translation).
> 
> In user mode the GLUE chip adds an offset to all adresses. It's not
> the best memory management hardware ever, but it's enough to make
> MINIX possible.

Does anybody know what this refers to? I know GLUE does a lot of things,
but I hadn't heard about any translation of addresses.
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dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) (09/21/87)

>> In user mode the GLUE chip adds an offset to all adresses. It's not
>> the best memory management hardware ever, but it's enough to make
>> MINIX possible.
> 
> Does anybody know what this refers to? I know GLUE does a lot of things,
> but I hadn't heard about any translation of addresses.

The glue chip does NOT do address translation.

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