mc68010+mc68451 Unix source?

[Ian S. King]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

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> On 10/4/16 3:02 PM, Ken Seefried wrote:
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> > Dumb question...did the '451 have a mechanism to work around the
> > instruction restart issue in the 68000?
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> no. the 68451 is a segmented mmu, so you wouldn't use it for demand
> paging. the normal way you use it in unix is setting up segents for
> text, data, and bss
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I remember reading the spec sheets for a MMU of that type - for the 6809!
That was one versatile little processor.

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