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--- Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
[snip]
> 
> An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very
> worthwhile, even if it
> requires a radical divergence from the original
> codebase.  I was

woudn''t it be rather inefficient (in the BEST case)
-handling numerous memory contextx -1 per process? 

> hoping that such a treat would appear out of NetBSD,
> but that doesn't
> seem to be the case.
> 
> Scott

They have taken a conscious decision not to work in
that direction -as it would screw up their overall s/w
architecture in accomodating that port [if they do
manage to get a non-mmu port ready].

regards
-kamal

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Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant 
kamalp@acm.org

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-).
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