[TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck')
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Jun 3 00:24:48 AEST 2014
Ronald Natalie scripsit:
> Still with all it's flaws, on the 286 and later UNIX actually did run in
> protected mode, something it took ages for DOS/Windows (one can argue
> backwards compatibility with the early processors) or Apple (no excuse
> here, the early Macs were 68000's which had protection) to pick up upon.
The original Mac 128K was a 68000 processor, and IIRC memory protection
didn't arrive until the 68020.
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