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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Why I switched from the Amiga
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
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- Message-ID: <peterk.0jya@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 96 01:01:23 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <DKqMnv.IHx@eskimo.com> drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin) writes:
- >Action Jackson (ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >
- >: 1) No Memory protection! Sounds Trivial? But Programmer productivity
- >: is Low is the machine keeps crashing!!!
-
- If you program cleanly from start and don't just "experiment with code",
- you won't crash your Amiga so often.
-
- >Very true. Many Amiga owners whine when they hear that they are gonna
- >get a "performance hit" with Memory Protection installed, so they don't
- >want it. Too bad that in reality, it will be almost undetectable,
-
- This is a misconception. You won't hardly detect the MMU checking
- accesses, but there's another big issue: For memory protection, the
- whole messaging system of the OS would have to be changed e.g. to a
- system where messages are copied instead of just passing pointers.
- This would mean a big hit in a) performance and b) memory consumption.
-
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- Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // Visit http://www.amiga.de
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- Much too little time for news and email, sorry. In memoriam Konrad Zuse.
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