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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 00:57:01 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4cn28d$5u6@serpens.rhein.de>
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- arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig) writes:
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- >In article <4cg07e$pfc@serpens.rhein.de>, Michael van Elst writes:
- >> Well, it _is_ impossible. You either have to freeze the processor in
- >> a bus error condition and use a second processor to handle the VM
- >> ([...]), or ... [...]
-
- >Huh? What reasoning is that?
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- >1. It is impossible.
- >2. The reason for that is that you would have to do it like this: ...
-
- Right. It is impossible because you can't do it with one 68000,
- you would need something _extra_.
-
- >I still claim it is not impossible, just ugly and kludgy
-
- As kludgy as using the 68000 in the disk controller and an 68010
- somewhere else, no ?
-
- I mean you have to agree on what the hardware actually is and an
- 68000 system is an 68000 CPU, memory and I/O hardware and not
- an 68000 CPU with an extra computer system attached to it that
- manages "page faults".
-
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- Michael van Elst
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