>-----Original Message----- >From: John Nemeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:15 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Nikolas Britton; Ted Unangst >Cc: Hamorszky Balazs; misc@openbsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: wikipedia article > > >On Nov 1, 6:11pm, "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote: >} >} Prior to the release of the 80386 the Intel processors didn't have >} memory protection which was a requirement of any processor running >} the BSD kernel. > > This is not entirely true. The 80286 had memory protection. >However, its memory protection was completely based on segments (i.e. >it could not do paging).
Oh, yeah, your right about that. Me bad. >Also, it was only a 16 bit processor. What was the bit size of the CPU's originally used to write UNIX in Bell Labs? Ted
