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Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, Steve's memory allocation trick, mallocking on faults, isn't
> portable, and I suspect the code will never run on a modern OS.

I heard that one of the first things that each of the various 68000 ports
had to do was patch the shell to make its memory allocation less
adventurous.

Tony.
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