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- From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
- Message-ID: <2310@forty2.physik.unizh.ch>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 11:35:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.100519.617@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Sender: news@forty2.physik.unizh.ch
- Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Comp. Sci.
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- In article <1992Jul24.100519.617@cheshire.oxy.edu> leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:
- >>> AVM - the Amiga Virtual Memory by F. Buergel and C. Schneider
- >>> At last - the benefits of virtual memory for existing software
- >>> like AdPro, CygnusEd, Imagine, etc
- >I'm not sure, but possibly virtual memory can be implemented on
- >the 68000 with some nifty software. In any case, the MMU is not necassary.
- >All 68K CPU's above the 68000 can support virtual memory.
- >Is this program actually available? In use? Any comments?
-
- The program has been released and is available in Germany under
- the name of `GigaMem'. It *requires* an Amiga with MMU (68020
- with 68851 or real 68030). GigaMem can make secondary memory
- (e.g. space on a hard drive) available as primary memory (RAM).
-
- It's fully transparent, this means applications don't have to
- specify that they want virtual memory (e.g. with a MEMF_VIRTUAL
- flag for AllocMem), they just get it. That way, GigaMem is compatible
- with almost any existing application program. It even allows
- you to specify well-behaving programs and decides according to
- this information which programs will get virtual memory and which
- won't.
- --
- Martin A. Blatter - ICU
- blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
-