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From: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PMMU on LC?
Keywords: LC
Message-ID: <Jan.22.12.10.16.1991.28473@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:10:19 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I spoke with a hardware vendor recently who told me that it would be
difficult to add a PMMU (for virtual memory) to a Mac LC because the
memory addressing is hardwired to "real" memory.  That is, you can't
simply drop in a PMMU as you could on the original '020-based Mac II.

Is this correct?

-Ralph
rgonzal@chowder.rutgers.edu