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- From: mdf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin Frost)
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- Subject: Re: Virtual memory on an 68000? Is it possible?
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 17:18:24 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- Frank Wille wrote:
- > You will need a 68010 at a minimum to support virtual memory. The
- > 68000 doesn't support instruction continuation and the information
- > in the exception stack frame is not sufficient for simulating an
- > access.
-
- It would certainly be possible to build a hardware device to generate an NMI
- when a certain range of addresses was accessed, and then the CPU could turn
- those into disk reads via a subtask. The difficulty would be temporarily
- stopping the task performing the read while you made the disk access. Oh,
- and you still couldn't have more than 16Mb of address space (ie about 12 Mb
- of total RAM, and even that much would be messy)
-
- Martin
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