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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Hardware support for m/t on Falcon?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.181643.10890@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:16:43 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.112035.633@cs.wayne.edu>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In article 633@cs.wayne.edu, pbh@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Patrick Haggood) writes:
- >I've been watching the posts about the Falcon's specs and MultiTos, the
- >multitasking OS and I don't recall seeing any info about this. So I
- >ask, does the '030 have hardware memory protection built in, or is
- >there a chip on the Falcon mb for it, or is there no protection
- >for processes? I've heard talk about ports of BSD to the falcon and
- >was wondering useful this might be if that protection isn't built in to
- >the machine.
-
- The Falcon makes use of the 68030's built-in "memory protection". This is the
- primary reason that you are not likely to see an official Atari MultiTOS upgrade
- for the 68000 series machines.
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