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- From: north@Apple.COM (Don North)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: 68000 & Lisa VM (was Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac)
- Message-ID: <77809@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 01:56:50 GMT
- References: <77386@apple.apple.COM> <1jv3a7INN49t@boston.crhc.uiuc.edu> <celeste-270193080343@128.158.16.248>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <celeste> celeste%express@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Celeste) writes:
- >The SUN 1's were 68010 based! The orginal Lisa was a 68010!
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- Don't know about the Sun1, but Apple never used a 68010 in a product. Never.
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- >I remember an advertisment by Apollo for a 68000 based "workstation"
- >for about $10,000.
- >
- >The "segmentation" method of code virtual memory was the same one as
- >in early and current Macs. For you history buffs, go look at the
- >PRT, Program Reference Table of the Burroughs 5500. PRT fuctionally
- >equlivent to A5 addressing. Both procedure calls and global data
- >references are made thought it. The B-5500 did in
- >hardware what the Mac and Lisa did in software for segmentation).
- >The current VM is simply hardware paging underneth that!
- >Can you say "Multix" which had both segmenation and paging!!!!
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- Actually, I think it was spelt "Multics"... :-)
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- Lisa did use a h/w mmu for segment relocation; it did not do any form
- of demand paging. Current Macintoshs do demand paging VM underneath
- the existing s/w-based segmentation (code resource) mechanism.
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