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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker, Havanna Ranger!
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 03:03:42 GMT
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- Touliatos Panagiotis (Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr) wrote:
- : On 18-Apr-96 16:56:00 PETER LARSEN Wrote:
- :
- : >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.
- :
- Ah, again we have Slayer the Great and his Semi-Adult vocabulary.
- Well, guess what! Most people -don't- need an MMU. Most can live without
- an FPU as well. Your games won't play any faster with an MMU aboard. You
- can't telecompute any better, or word process any better. OK, you really
- -want- to have an FPU if you are doing rendering or scientific work. You
- -need- an MMU if you have a multi-user system or if you are trying to
- cheap out on RAM by swapping to the HD. When was the last time you had
- two users on your Amiga at once?
- OK, truth is they may have made their decision based on the cost
- of the processor and then justified it with the truth - most people just
- don't have any use for what an MMU provides. Most people who insist on an
- MMU (or FPU) in a home computer are more interested in the ego boost from
- having the sharpest toys around than in any real use they might put it
- to. That doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer -having- it, but try being honest
- about it. And, hey! I didn't have to delete one expletive.
-