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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!nobody From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: O/S for 286s Date: 6 Aug 1994 20:59:49 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <321f6l$nke@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <1994Aug2.170647.1@ualr.edu> <michaelv.775935719@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <31rn8r$si@s069.infonet.net> <31ugkk$54b@bronze.coil.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <31ugkk$54b@bronze.coil.com>, Henry Ware <hware@bronze.coil.com> wrote: >The 286 is really showing its age tho: it can't do virtual memory paging, >for example. I'm not sure that this is true. I do recall noticing that the 286 could support demand paged virtual memory, though it'd have some weird side effects. All you need to do demand paging is the ability to recover an instruction that has caused a memory address trap. The PDP-11 could do it, though with 8K pages in a 64K address space it wouldn't buy you much. >IMHO, $100 would be better spent buying a new motherboard- >that could buy a 386DX40 or a Cyrix486slc40. Plus $160 or so for the 4M of RAM.