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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!andrey
  3. From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
  4. Subject: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep15.164456.28987@cco.caltech.edu>
  6. Keywords: new chipsets, WOC, MMU
  7. Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: punisher
  9. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  10. References: <1992Sep13.001854.21763@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Sep15.095739.10761@uni-paderborn.de>
  11. Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:44:56 GMT
  12. Lines: 15
  13.  
  14. chandler@uni-paderborn.de (Martin Grote) writes:
  15.  
  16. >Does this mean OS 3.1 will have the long-spoken MMU support, i.e. will
  17. >every task have memory access physically restricted to properly
  18. >allocated memory, and will it be possible to remove tasks with all
  19. >allocated resources properly in OS 3.1?
  20.  
  21.     According to Peter Cherna, no.  It would be incredibly
  22. hairy to do memory-protection, and resource-tracking is
  23. not worth the time compared to implementing retargetability.
  24.  
  25. --Andre
  26.  
  27. -- 
  28. Andre Yew                             andrey@tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.48.100)
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