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- From: jtv@asd06-23.dial.xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why I switched from the Amiga
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 96 18:22:10
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
- Message-ID: <19960115.7AF0C50.1046C@asd06-08.dial.xs4all.nl>
- References: <4bngub$2k4@madrid.visi.net> <peterk.0jya@combo.ganesha.com> <w+QfSMD158aCz4@mtonne22.trashcan.mcnet.de>
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- In article <w+QfSMD158aCz4@mtonne22.trashcan.mcnet.de>
- drizzt@trashcan.mcnet.de (Martin Hauner) writes:
-
- > > 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.
- >
- > Not necessarily, one could simply add a link to the receivers
- > mmu-table, so it would get access to the senders memory-page
- > containing the message. The processes would have some shared
- > memory for comunication.
-
- Not that simple. The whole problem is that you don't know how long the message
- is; in fact the value you pass needn't even be a pointer at all. So yes, the
- message system *would* need to be changed.
-
- > There would be no need to copy the message.
-
- Recent developments in other OS's indicate that just copying the entire message
- is usually more efficient than messing about with MMU tables.
-
-
- > // Martin Hauner
- > \\/
- > Obelix : Einverstanden. Aber nicht gleich. Zuerst wird geschlafen!
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
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