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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:40:04 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.oaor4c@erics.infoserv.com>
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- cvadsgvo@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
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- > the only use of mmu is virtual memory, so it is true that 68000 machine can't
- > use virtual memory.
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- But it's more than that. The 68000 is not capable of virtual memory,
- even with an external MMU. The 68010 was the first of the series that
- was capable of VM, and that required an external MMU.
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- Also, it's not true that the only use of an MMU is virtual memory. An
- MMU does address translation, and that permits an application to be
- "scatter-loaded" into memory, i.e. loaded non-contiguously. Thus an
- external MMU can be used effectively with chips like the 68000 and the
- 8086, even though virtual memory is not possible for these chips.
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- > that does not mean there is any affect on the performance.
- > 286 can't use virtual memory either. i could be wrong.
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- I believe you are wrong. I believe the 286 has an on-chip MMU, and does
- support virtual memory.
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