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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
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Subject: Re: One world, One CPU, One OS
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Date: 14 Apr 90 07:40:28 GMT
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In article <18000053@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> morris@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>(instruction cacheing, pmmu (soon), other stuff) instead of running the
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't mean to sound nit-picky, but "pmmu NOW."  Check out Virtual INIT.
Of course, while we're on the subject of why Apple can innovate the system
software it would probably also do some justice to talk about the ease of
making extensions (like Virtual INIT) to the system.  I currently have about
20 INITs/CDEVs running on my SE without any problems whatsoever. If you make
sure that the software is written reasonably well (the more IM is followed the
better, in most cases) then there's no problem.


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