David Brownlee <abs@mono.org> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> > Excerpts from mail: 16-Nov-99 Re: a porting idea. Jason Thorpe@nas.nasa.go
> > 
> > > You'd have to basically nuke memory management.  No MMU is kind of a
> > > hardship for Unix these days.
> > 
> > Yes, there is a paper explaining how MINIX was crippled so that could
> > run on the basic 68k (no VM, no segment registers).  (I'm afraid I don't
> > have a URL and my memory of it is vague). While fairly brutal it was
> > successful.
> > 
> > So is it acceptable as a target? :-)
> 
> 	If someone wants to write the code, and it does not unacceptably 
> 	impact the existing ports, then by all means.
> 
> 	It would also be useful for all those cheaper i960 boxes :)

Not to mention MMU-less ARM chips, etc.  (Think Palm Pilot.)