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- From: tna@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Trevor Andrews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Speculations: Amiga and Mach?
- Message-ID: <56791@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 03:37:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.013328.7580@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Aug14.013328.7580@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford) writes:
- >There are already several versions of Un*x running on various versions of
- >Mach, including the NeXT. It seems to be getting popular, to say the least.
-
- Personal: MACH is alwsome....
- >
- >I don't want to cause an OS-war ruckus here, but most of us agree that one
- >major sore spot of the Amiga's OS is its lack of virtual and protected
-
- We have VirMem... Ever heard of GigaMem??
-
- >memory. (Anyone who's about to say, "but we don't *need* it", please think
-
- Protected Mem would be great but you must realize you need an MMU
- for both virmem and protection.... Most amigas still have 68000s in them.
-
- ...
- >So assuming Commodore is planning on moving to virtual/protected memory
- >anyway, it seems like using Mach 3 could be quite beneficial. It is already
- >working well, and it will likely become very mature and reliable by the time
- >"Kickstart 3.0" could be released for it. It would save Commodore all the
-
- If CBM was ready to move "UP" to the "real" world. It would take to
- long for them(anyone) to get somthing ready and working on MACH....
-
- Sorry, but it would be a nice dream... I love MACH... Umm, but
- please keep it away from the great guys at CBM!!!
-
- >hassles of coming up with their own virtual/protected memory kernel design
- >and making it fast and reliable; instead they could spend their time making
- >the Amiga's OS work better with it. All the Un*x hackers that have
- ....
-
- Take care, //
- Trevor VV
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