Re: "Linux ported to non MMU system"

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> >If you run MiNTOS on a standard ST you're probably not using GEM (that
> >would cripple both MiNTOS and GEM) anyway. 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.
> 
> Hopefully there are several memory extensions for ST up to 16 MB of memory.

There is atleast one, the Magnum ST. Marpet made one too, but I don't
know if it's still available.

> BTW, have you noticed the 68000 Linux kernel takes only 76 kB of memory? I
> don't get it - the regular 68030 kernel takes more than 500 kB...

76Kb?? Sounds more like Lunix than Linux to me ;-) (For those of you
that don't know Lunix, it's Unix for the C64...)


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