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Article #4661Re: MMU + A3000 + AmigaOS2.0 == Non-crashing system?
From: Andrew Zahra Telecom
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 03:53
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 03:53
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In article <20889@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: > > Yes, there's been a lot of traffic in the comp.sys.amiga.xxx groups > about this. Unfortunately, I haven't heard a workable solution for > existing applications, I can't think of one myself, and many net.folk > whose opinions I respect have claimed it can't be practically done. > > Therefore, the way to get MMU protection for your applications is to > abandon application binary compatibility; and if you're going to do > this anyway, then why not just use Unix? > -- Wouldn't it be possible to phase in mmu support by having a mechanism to let the os know if your program can handle having an mmu protect things from it.This way the things would progressively become more stable as more of these new prgs appear - old prgs would just have their protection mask set to have access to all memory and they'd never know the difference...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!bunyip!metro!wolfen!zahra From: zahra@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Andrew Zahra Telecom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: MMU + A3000 + AmigaOS2.0 == Non-crashing system? Summary: phase in mmu support? Message-ID: <6405@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> Date: 2 Aug 90 03:53:05 GMT References: <2489@clinet.FI> <20889@grebyn.com> Organization: Uni of Wollongong, NSW, Australia Lines: 16