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From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
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Subject: Re: Memory protection for all amiga's
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Date: 22 Mar 90 21:32:21 GMT
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In article <7250@ubc-cs.UUCP> panon@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon) writes:
>The problem is when you try to implement memory protection
>that you can break things. For obvious reasons, you could only run VM on
>FAST RAM, not CHIP (blitter wants this address. Just a second I'll page it in.
>oops, there goes your screen, Sorry.)

Umm, hate to burst your bubble, but memory management does not
require virtual memory.  On the amiga, memory management without
virtual memory would be quite nice.  (Of course VM would be nice too :-)

Wasn't this discussed to death a few months ago?


brian moffet