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Mmmm..;. job of modern OS is to use/manage MMU. Prior to DEC, OS just automated version of human feeding punch cards/spooling up tape.

DEC provided the necessary hardware MMU to do actual real time multi-processing/multi-user access in feasibile/practical manner.



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