Re: 68000 Memory Managment

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From: George Robbins
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1986 00:54

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In article <64@mit-prep.ARPA> tmb@prep.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>
>I consider it a grave mistake not to have included even a rudimentary kind
>of address remapping on the Amiga; even just an adder on the address lines
>of the 68000 would have simplified the system software and allowed some
>kind of swapping to be hacked.
>						Thomas.

A reasonable attitute, but remember that both the Amiga and Atari were
intended to be affordable machines.  To this end, they contain only those
things that were considered to be needed - no 'it sure would be nice...'
type goodies.
-- 
George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)

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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment
Message-ID: <653@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 20:54:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.653
Posted: Mon Aug 18 20:54:37 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Aug-86 07:54:07 EDT
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: 68000 atari amiga 68k mmu

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