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Article #1455Re: 68000 Memory Managment
From: George Robbins
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1986 22:30
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1986 22:30
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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
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!think!nike!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!usc-oberon!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!caip!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment Message-ID: <726@curly.ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 18:30:32 EDT Article-I.D.: curly.726 Posted: Tue Aug 19 18:30:32 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Aug-86 22:07:03 EDT References: <508@elmgate.UUCP> <64@mit-prep.ARPA> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 16 Keywords: 68000 atari amiga 68k mmu