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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 16:23:55 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
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- In article <rdingem.4m95@grafix.xs4all.nl>, rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl says...
- >
- >You're wrong there. AFAIK there was only some embryonic support
- >for a kind of resource tracking. Think of it: how were they going
- >to implement VM or MP with a MMU-less 68000 cpu?
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- Just because the base system they started CAOS on was 68000, doesn't mean they
- didn't design the OS with 020's (and 551's) in mind. If they did stick with
- 68000, we'd have silly things like "32bit clean" stickers on our software ;-)
-
- I'll see if I can dig out the Transactor article.
-
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