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- From: robodude@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 31 Dec 1995 20:28:43 GMT
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- Christopher D. Judd (cdj@gmk02.chem.rpi.edu) wrote:
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- : By the way, it is possible to implement memory protection even
- : with a 68000 and the right peripherals chips (which Amigas don't have).
- : I imagine the performance would be pretty horrible though. My seat-
- : of-the-pants guestimate is that it would't make sense on anything less
- : than an '030, although it has certainly been done on slower chips.
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- Early UNIX systems used Motorola 68000s. They had virtual memory,
- protected memory, etc.--all the features of UNIX, in short.
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