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- From: gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 14:09:00 GMT
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- >CPUs are powerful enough to handle this "performance hit" and still run
- >rings around the fastest 060 with native PPC code. As for RAM
- >requirements, we don't want to make the Amiga as bloated as a MAC, so
- >some form of compromise should be designed. Like perhaps making memory
- >protection optional.
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- But, you cant make the memory handling optional. It's not the memory
- protection itself that's going to cause the perpormance hit, it's
- changing the way programs use memory that's the problem.
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- Am I wrong?
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- Gary Caine Member: Team AMIGA
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