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by kps 2095 days ago
The PC also had no MMU or OS overhead.
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The 68K had no MMU or even segment registers, so the 68K machines that can run UNIX had, at the very least, some kind of external memory offset adder. I did not know the Apple Lisa had this- it's interesting because Macs didn't have it and could not run UNIX.
The Motorola 68020 has a MMU coprocessor, and the 68030, 68040 have an on-chip MMU. The Macintosh II, SE/30, Quadra, and Centris series were able to run A/UX [1] since 1988. A/UX was a SystemV with X and Finder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

> The PC also had no MMU or OS overhead.

No MMU, sure, but the whole point of this was to benchmark an OS. It's all about the OS overhead.