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- From: Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr (Touliatos Panagiotis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker, Havanna Ranger!
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 01:49:41 GMT
- Organization: Hellas On Line
- Message-ID: <1447.6684T42T1488@prometheus.hol.gr>
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- On 18-Apr-96 16:56:00 PETER LARSEN Wrote:
- >Hi everybody,
-
- >just saw the Walker 'live', it is all things considered not a bad
- >design, and while it does look as if it escaped from the set for some
- >movie shot in Havanna, then it also appears to be very functional in a
- >living room. Had a chat with Michael Hohman from A-T (I think that was
- >his name) and he told me:
-
-
- >a) no, it doesn't need a MMU because access to ROM is as fast as it is,
- > and most people only use the MMU for 'fastrom'ing anyway'.
- this is bullshit, the MMU is needed for memmory protection and with the walker
- still not have one as standard i can't see any real improvement over OS, like
- virtual memmory and crash protection.
-
- >d: Why the EC, well - most people don't need the MMU anyway, and
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- this is the bullshit
- > the 40 Mhz 68EC03 has a very nice price, the alternative would
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- and now the man tell us the truth,they just don't want
- to spend money on real proceccors with MMU.
- So just live with the same old problems.
-
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