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- Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!liv!strath-cs!info!DJDavies
- From: DJDavies@exeter.ac.uk (D.J.Davies)
- Subject: Re: Virtual memory with No MMU?
- Message-ID: <DoM877.MKr@exeter.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Exeter, UK
- References: <4hn3hk$1a8s@columba.udac.uu.se>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:35:30 GMT
-
- trulsson@student.docs.uu.se writes:
- > D.J.Davies (DJDavies@exeter.ac.uk) wrote:
- > > Can this be done ? I could do with more memory. I have a
- > > Blizzard a1230 IV 030/50?
- > >
- > Virtual memory without an MMU isn't possible, but since the
- > Blizzard 1230-IV AFAIK comes with a fullblown '030 this means that
- > you *have* an MMU and therefore can use programs like VMM or GigaMem.
- > (What your card probably lacks is an *FPU* - a math coprocessor, that
- > inb no way is needed for virtual memory)
-
- How come then for instance that Shapeshifter does'nt show the
- MMU refresh option (it's greyed out)?
-
- Would it be possible to produce a screen hack to speed up 256
- colour wb/software for owners of MMU's i.e. via Ibrowse?
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