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by Taniwha 82 days ago
68451 or a custom SUN-like (SRAM, kind of like a PDP11) MMU, there was a guy who went around Silicon Valley in the mid 80s designing SUN-like MMUs for companies, they were all different, and some were broken (couldn't protect user space from kernel space).

68000s however had a problem: they couldn't return correctly from a page (MMU) fault (68010s fixed that) for a pre-VM (pre BSD or SVR2) UNIX world - however you could get around this with a few smarts
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actionfromafar 81 days ago
I think someone worked around it by running two 68000 in lock-step, or-one-step-behind or something like that.
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Taniwha 81 days ago
yeah, that's rather a pain though and it effectively leaves one 68k frozen while the other services the page fault - it means you can't run another user process while the page is being read in (because it too might cause a page fault)
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