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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 15:44:14 GMT
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- In article <4c6p5j$10j@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.deÄ says...
- >
- >edmundv@grafix.xs4all.nl (Edmund Vermeulen) writes:
- >
- >>So you are saying that the OS guys at Commodore-Amiga had never seen UNIX
- >The decision to use an 68000 has something to do with _cost_. At that
- >time hardly anyone could afford 68020s or MMU chips. And with 68000
- >in mind you do not have to ask yourself wether you implement memory
- >protection or not as you simply cannot implement it.
- >
- My question is are the hooks there? If the designers where forward
- thinkers, they might start with an MP design and work backwards when
- taking it out. That way it could be put back in later, for example,
- when 68020 and the MMU chip came down in price. Another example, if a
- high end system is possible down the road.
-
- Of course this is all probably impossible from a programming point of view.
- Reality sets in you know.
-
- Fred Heitkamp
- >
- >--
- > Michael van Elst
- >
- >Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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