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- Subject: GNU
- From: chanson@mtlookitthat.chi.il.us (Chris Hanson)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:36:24 CDT
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- "Glen Lalonde (448-4278)" <glalonde@vnet.ibm.com> writes:
- > The binary for GNU v 1.3 is on plains.nodak.edu, I forget the
- > directory though, something like mincin/68k/gcc
-
- Thanx to everyone who's pointed this stuff out to me -- I really
- appreciate your help in my efforts to provide Yet Another Free OS (yes,
- mine won't even be CopyLeft-Encumbered -- no flames on this please).
-
- > Let us know if you ever get Mach Up and working. I do hope your
- > using an accelerator and not a mac //. Otherwise you will find that
- > the MMU is in use, even without VM turned on, thus Mach may not be able
- > to use the MMU for its purposes. Good luck.
-
- I am using a Mac II -- A IIci to be specific. The thing is, I plan on
- abandoning the MacOS and even Minix when Mach starts up. Therefore,
- the MMU is not needed. The bootstrap will start up from disk and
- automatically load Mach (I have a utility to make a boot disk out of
- any random Minix binary, which is what the microkernel will be at
- first). Once the kernel starts, it'll figure out via table-walking
- where in RAM it's located and then it'll set up its own tables. Or the
- bootstrap could just turn off the MMU, load Mach off the disk into
- physical RAM at a known location, and start it from there. I dunno --
- I've got to compile the thing first. Watch comp.os.mach for news.
-
- CYA, Chris
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- Chris Hanson -- chanson@mtlookitthat.chi.il.us
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