> People have indeed hacked Linux/BSD/etc to run on hardware with no MMU,
> but there are always significant sacrifices involved which they aren't
> very interested in talking about.

	That's an understatement.

	The first version of UNIX (besides the PDP-6 REALLY first
version) ran on a PDP-11/20, which doesn't have an MMU.  I asked
Dennis Ritchie about this, thinking it must have been a single-user
system, under the circumstances.  He said, no, it was indeed multi-user.
"All the terminals were in the same room.  Whenever someone wanted
to test a program, he'd say, 'a.out?'  And everyone else in the room
would go, 'w', 'q' [the command sequence to write out a file in 'ed',
and then quit]."

	One bogus pointer and the OS and all the other programs
currently running are binary garbage.