Scott Robison wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:58 PM, James K. Lowden
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:41:41 -0500
>> Richard Damon wrote:
>>
>>> there are machines where it doesn't work (you just need a larger
>>> program space than data space).
>>
>> Huh. An example of which is the "medi
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> Scott Robison wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the OT diversion, but I'm just curious as I don't have
>> historical
>> POSIX standards for reference. Does POSIX really *require* an MMU?
>> Certainly Unix like systems were written for 8086 class computers,
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:09 AM, James K. Lowden
wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:21:26 -0700
> Scott Robison wrote:
>
> > > Huh. An example of which is the "medium model" of the Intel 8086:
> > > 20-bit code pointers and 16-bit data pointers. A machine for which
> > > C compilers existed, and
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:21:26 -0700
Scott Robison wrote:
> > Huh. An example of which is the "medium model" of the Intel 8086:
> > 20-bit code pointers and 16-bit data pointers. A machine for which
> > C compilers existed, and on which no Posix system will ever run
> > (because it lacks an MMU).
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:58 PM, James K. Lowden
wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:41:41 -0500
> Richard Damon wrote:
>
> > there are machines where it doesn't work (you just need a larger
> > program space than data space).
>
> Huh. An example of which is the "medium model" of the Intel 8086:
>
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