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- Subject: Re: Does Linux use segmentation?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:01:32 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211152201.44@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov13.140201.2005@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov13.140201.2005@athena.mit.edu> Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
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- >There are actually Multics systems still around, it's not the failed lab
- >experiment that most text books would lead you to believe. Although
- >Multics didn't meet all of it's initial design goals, it wasn't a failure.
- >The main reason it didn't catch on was mostly due to a lack of marketing.
- >In fact I see alot of similarities between the Linux and Multics, but mostly
- >between the people behind them. Multics has dynamic linking, while Linux has
- >shared libraries, although they aren't exactly the same, they both cut down
- >on the size of executables which is a very good thing. As mentioned, Multics
- >does have segmentation and paging. It also has rings. I believe the 386 & 486
- >support rings, how hard would it be to implement these under Linux?
- >The other real big similarity is they both come with source code online.
- >About 92% of Multics is written in PL1, the rest in assembly, but it all is
- >online, accessable to any normal user to look at or even compile.
- >
- >Both Multics and Linux had a good initial design, but what really makes them
- >both a success is the people behind them working together to improve on an
- >idea.
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- About a year ago there was a short thread in alt.folklore.computers talking
- about a Multics port to Intel boxes.
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- I don't have a reference as to where it might be obtained.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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