From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: Job opening for experienced Ada developer in Huntsville, AL
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:26:06 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-09-16T19:26:06+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 35327cb1-1a60-4e80-896a-f91b03a0e8e6@googlegroups.com
On 2014-09-16, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Think a little smaller. It's the Unix version they used in the Commodore 64. Really.
>
> From what I understand, Unix relies on some support for memory protection,
> which did not exist on C64 and 8-bit is quite a constraint in other areas of
> the system architecture as well.
uCLinux runs without a MMU:
http://www.uclinux.org/
> The only references I have found for such systems call them "Unix-like". I
> think this is fair enough and I would not call it a "Unix version".
> Of course I agree that it is anyway quite an achievement.
>
I'll let you decide if uCLinux is Unix or not. :-)
Simon.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 13:29 Job opening for experienced Ada developer in Huntsville, AL Marc Criley
2014-09-12 14:28 ` Marc Criley
2014-09-13 1:20 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-09-13 11:47 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-14 5:29 ` francois_fabien
2014-09-15 14:36 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-15 14:53 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-15 15:34 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-16 7:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-09-16 15:08 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-18 8:44 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-09-23 5:05 ` Mike Silva
2014-09-16 19:26 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
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