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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: PowerPC and learning curve investment
- Keywords: PowerPC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.131241.8921@kth.se>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:12:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.003605.3042@dtint.uucp>
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- In <1993Jan12.003605.3042@dtint.uucp> tom@dtint.uucp (Thomas R. Kimpton) writes:
-
- > 1. Is the programming interface to the PowerPC OS going
- > to remain:
- > A. Exactly the same (IM I-VI, NIM 1-15)
-
- From what I've heard, this is true. You will also get
- a new OS release sometime "later" with protected memory
- and preemtive multitasking, but it will come for 68k
- machines as well. Don't ask me when.
-
- > 2. Are we going to see:
- > A. Demand paged virtual memory
-
- We already have...
-
- > B. Protected memory
- > C. Kernel threading
- > D. Pre-emptive multi-tasking
- > E. Shared memory segments
- > F. Semaphores
-
- See above.
-
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