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It was the introduction of paged memory management and a flat address space that allowed Unix like OSs to run on the 386.
by mr_toad 3y ago
It was the introduction of paged memory management and a flat address space that allowed Unix like OSs to run on the 386.
- em500 3y agoXenix was an officially licensed Unix for the 16-bit 8086. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
- p_l 3y agoUnix didn't require paged address space, and several were running using 286 segmentation only (some even without that, but that was pretty much without any protections, while 286 gave equivalent memory management to late PDP-11)