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Article #13039

Re: MEMF_PHYSICAL?

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From: Kristoffer Eriksson
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 18:25
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In article <8906030123.AA14671@jade.berkeley.edu> 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>Valentin's AmigaOS 2.0:
>
>1. Single addressing space.
>2. Virtual memory.
>3. Memory protection.
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>4. Resource tracking.

>His error is pretty easy to catch if you though out how virtual memory is to
>be implemented. You see, the virtual memory handler on a single address space
>OS does not care what program is running in what memory. It merely swaps in and
         -----------------------------------------------
>out individual pages one-by-one. Full programs never have to be swapped out
>entirely, just individual pages. This will become more obvious in a couple of
>weeks.  :-)

How can the OS and MMU provide any protection, if they don't care what program
is using what memory?

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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: MEMF_PHYSICAL?
Summary: How does the protection work?
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Date: 8 Jun 89 18:25:20 GMT
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