Subject: Re: Is an MMU necessary?
To: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 07/26/2000 14:05:09 
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:27:10AM -0800, Grant Stockly wrote:
> Can you get by without a MMU?

Without a MMU you don't have virtual adresses, memory access protections and
paging. It's almost impossible to build a secure multiuser system without this.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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