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- From: ludde@nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 1 Jan 96 02:34:26 GMT
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- In <edmundv.42zj@grafix.xs4all.nl> edmundv@grafix.xs4all.nl (Edmund Vermeulen) writes:
- >On 29 Dec 95 Michael Van Elst wrote about 'Re: OS features':
- > MVE> So how do you NOT implement it on an 68000 ? You simply do not have
- > MVE> the possibility to allow or forbid it. Talking about a "design
- > MVE> decision" is nonsense.
-
- >So you are saying that the OS guys at Commodore-Amiga had never seen UNIX and
- >its inbuilt memory protection? And furthermore that they didn't know about the
- >68020 and its optional MMU hardware?
-
- Of course they (or at least some of them) were familiar with UNIX and
- memory protection.
- The 68020 arrived 1984 I believe and the 68851 MMU in 1985. That was probably
- too late to be seriously considered in the OS design.
-
- --
- -Erik Lundevall
- WWW: http://www.algonet.se/~erikl/
- Your fault. Core dumped.
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