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Exactly the type of thing I was hoping to see. Mind blowing the 286 could run a fully fledged Unix. I wonder what the process isolation story is, did everything
by CyberRabbi 5y ago
Exactly the type of thing I was hoping to see. Mind blowing the 286 could run a fully fledged Unix. I wonder what the process isolation story is, did everything run in the same address space? If so then were all binaries position-independent?
Edit: answered my own question. So this is the obsolete segmentation isolation I’ve always read about!
- indymike 5y ago> Edit: answered my own question. So this is the obsolete segmentation isolation I’ve always read about! Yep. It was amazing what you could do with it. 286 was a chip that outside Xenix, Coherent and a few other multiuser OSes never really was fully utilized.