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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 00:21:07 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: OS features
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.45in@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 10 Jan 96 Tom Kennedy wrote to All:
-
- TK> Well, according to Harv Laser, the PowerAmigas will have virtual memory
- TK> and memory protection -- Harv wrote:
-
- TK> Here's a repost of my posting from when I got home from the VTU expo
- TK> on Thursday. From other postings here it sounds like it didn't get
- TK> out to everywhere (which I doubt... I think it's more lag than
- TK> anything else).
-
- TK> I also wanted to add that during his speech, Petro also mentioned
- TK> that the PowerAmiga will feature memory protection and virtual
- TK> memory as OS features. I cannot stress enough that his speech was
-
- Ahem, I looked it up on the AT home page, were AT speeches are
- available, but the only thing I saw was a mention that "(the OS..)
- will hopefully provide things like memory protection..."
-
- I don't have all the speeches any more though, so I could be wrong
- or overlooking something.
-
- Wouldn't surprise me if they backed out of their early promises.
- Happens all the time in the computer industry...
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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