Subject: Re: NetBSD/pdp10 ?
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/06/2002 15:50:16
eeh@netbsd.org writes:
> | What better way to exercise the portability of NetBSD?  We've got 32-bit
> | and 64-bit archictures sorted.  Certainly there would be some challenges
> | left with 36-bit support, no?  Given the availability of several PDP-10
> | emulators and the work on GCC, I don't see why it couldn't be done.
> 
> Lack of a real MMU is probably going to cause problems, especially since
> UBC requires MMU functionality.

Er, Eduardo, the machines in question invented the modern MMU. They
were the first architecture to have demand paged virtual memory.


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