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Article #3398Re: loading (was Re: IBM PC prehistory)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 17:02
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 17:02
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> This reminds me, has anyone even made a linker and/or loader system that can
> load into multiple fragments of a non-MMU'd memory?
Both the Amiga and the Macintosh do this. I believe the Mac uses base
registers and call gates, so it's technically *got* an MMU and it's the
runtime system that's doing the work, not the loader. The Amiga loader
actually does the final linking step: multiple references are resolved
and the in-core image is modified. You can have as many such chunks as you
can stand.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: loading (was Re: IBM PC prehistory) Message-ID: <BT31I15xds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Jan 90 17:02:48 GMT References: <7413@drilex.UUCP> <380@bambam.UUCP> <6792@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9