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30th November 2015, 15:13 | #1 |
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| How the Atari ST almost had Real Unix The latest problem I was working out was how to run Unix on the Atari ST. The Tramiels had somehow wrangled a license for AT&T's SVR-something-or-other version of Unix (might have been SVR3, but this was in the bad old days when AT&T was actively ****ing up Unix, and it could have been just about any version, including SVR666). The license was for a mind boggling, nay, jaw-dropping ten bucks a seat. The problem was that the ST didn’t have any kind of memory management hardware, just a raw CPU flinging real addresses at naked DRAM, and the machine's cheap-*** vanilla 68000 was incapable of recovering from a fault unless you cheated. On a related note, there's MiNT. http://osnews.com/story/28974/How_th..._had_Real_Unix |
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