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Article #1460Re: 68000 Memory Managment
From: Jan Steinman
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1986 17:38
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1986 17:38
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In article <270@dmsd.UUCP> bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass) writes: >In article <653@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >> A reasonable attitute, but remember that both the Amiga and Atari were >> intended to be affordable machines... > >Consider that (for) a simple paging mmu... we are talking under $45 at >the shelf. This is the difference between the ST being a game machine and >having the support for process issolation and error detection for a strong >bussiness machine. I don't quite buy that. Look at the #1 business machine -- what kind of MMU does it have? The Atari has just about the same features as the IBM PC -- including lack of reasonable system software. The Amiga at least made an attempt to make up for the lack of an MMU with good system software. -- :::::: Artificial Intelligence Machines --- Smalltalk Project :::::: :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 60-405 (w)503/685-2956 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!nbires!hao!hplabs!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jans From: jans@tekecs.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment Message-ID: <7578@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 13:38:01 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.7578 Posted: Wed Aug 27 13:38:01 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Aug-86 21:35:17 EDT References: <508@elmgate.UUCP> <64@mit-prep.ARPA> <653@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <270@dmsd.UUCP> Reply-To: jans@tekecs.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 18 Keywords: 68000 atari amiga 68k mmu