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- From: gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 02:48:20 GMT
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- >"much more"? I don't think a few percentages is "much more". And I
- >don't see how it's going to change the whole concept of the Amiga. It
- >just means that you can't pass pointers between processes and the
- >machine becomes more stable.
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- "JUST" means? When you start copying whole blocks of memory around,
- instead of just passing a pointer, there's a big overhead in time,
- and memory usage.
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- This is an important frature of the OS, far more important than
- memory protection IMHO.
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- Gary Caine Member: Team AMIGA
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