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From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking on the ST
Message-ID: <652@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 22:51:15 GMT
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Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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  What's all this about MultiTasking on the ST ? You don't have a MMU (not
really and I think that's the worst failure in the ST's hardware architechture),
so you are definetely not able to run a *secure* multitasking on this machine
even if you want to - basta. All what you can call protected memory inside the 
ST is a bunch of bytes at the bottom plus the hardware registers - that's it.
  If you want to realize reasonable memory segmentation (in my experience this
is essential for TimeSharing) you MUST have a MMU.

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