kjh@aludra.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) (11/06/90)
In article <211@minixug.mugnet.org> waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred van Kempen) writes: >In article <1990Oct31.224953.7915@dsuvax.uucp>, ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) wrote: >> Is anyone with SPARC, 68030, or 80[34]86 chips working on adding >> demand paged virtual memory to MINIX? >Someone at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam (NL) has written a >swapper for MINIX. I don't see any reason why virtual memory couldn't be implemented even on a brain dead '286, 8086, or 8088. The 64k + 64k process limit would still be there, but machines with only 640k might greatly benefit. -- favorite oxymorons: military intelligence, honest politician, civil war Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh