[SunRescue] any 3B2 users out there?

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Mar 20 22:36:49 CST 2001


On March 20, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >  I'm not sure a NetBSD port would be possible.  I remember reading
> >somewhere that the 3B2 architecture MMU doesn't support paging, which
> >I believe is something all of the BSDs would require at a very basic
> >level.  Anyone else have more info about this?
> 
> Neah. 3B2s (WE32000 & friends (seperate MMU & FPU)) definately page.

  They do?  Cool, I stand corrected.  Was it just SysV, then, that had
the swapping/paging limitation?  I remember that one couldn't run
emacs, for example, unless the process could all fit in memory at once.

           -Dave McGuire



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