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- From: "Stefano Agostinelli" <agos001@pn.itnet.it>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 17:23:36 +0100
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- Wells Fargo Bank wrote in comp.sys.amiga.hardware about "Re: OS features":
- >
- > Could a new 'layer' for the OS be written that you can set up a 'protected'
- > portion of memory for a special purpose, ie, programming as the example is
- > above, that within that protected memory it would act as its own machine,
- > seperate from the rest?
-
- About message handling we all know the Amiga uses a pointer based method...
- Olaf Barthel says that could be a problem for MP implementation.
- An idea: why not create an exec demon that snoops at messages and provides
- to alloc them in a memory protected pool? If the receiver thrashes the
- message contents the original sender would be unaffected.
-
- > This could possibly be done more than once, and therefore have multiple
- > parts of RAM set aside as 'protected' Memory space. In any case, my main
- > goal is to consider some approach to this that would allow us to work with
- > the OS as it currently stands (adding a layer versus a complete re-write),
- > that would also give us a much higher level of stability (when specifically
- > needed and requested... ie, writing term paper, programming, rendering, etc).
- > For 'game playing' or basic tele-communications, this wouldn't be critical.
-
- Indeed...I'm not convinced of MP uselfulness in the Amiga env.After all
- Amigas are personal machines,well not like unix boxes which provide services
- for lot of users.
- I'm conviced we need evolution not a completely new system.
-
- Cheers
- Stefano
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