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Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?



On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:48:58PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Mike writes:
> > I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit
> 
> It does, but the architecture is different.  A 286 won't run Linux.

Are you sure? I thought that the mmu was introduced only in the 386. I
think I still used direct memory access using far pointers to write the
video ram and such on a 286.

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