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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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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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