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Re: "Linux ported to non MMU system"
- To: MiNT mailing list <mint@atari.archive.umich.edu>
 
- Subject: Re: "Linux ported to non MMU system"
 
- From: Yves Pelletier <ypell@cam.org>
 
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:13:32 -0500 (EST)
 
- In-reply-to: <01bd37cd$fa799fa0$b9f0d5c2@joy.zln.cz>
 
A few messages back, someone said:
> The biggest problem would probably be the lack of memory, I
> can't imagine that you can do anything sensible with Linux on
> a 4Mb machine without VM.
I just visited the WWW page, and actually VM support was not
removed.  Instead they replaced paged VM with a "flat" VM model,
whatever that means. (Is it the same as the VM in MiNT?)
Naturally, VM still isn't a replacement for oodles of RAM.
Yves
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