[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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