Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!niloo.engin.umich.edu!milamber From: milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daryl Scott Cantrell) Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster? Message-ID: <1991Apr3.201259.8377@engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor References: <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 20:12:59 GMT In article <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: >In article , cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) writes: >[...] >available. It also explains many significant features -- including >virtual memory, memory protection, resource tracking, and >device-independent video -- are still absent from the Amiga's O.S. >[...] What is the big deal about memory protection and resource tracking? Sure, it might be a nice toy, but it wouldn't be real useful on a single-user system. Is this one of those things people want just because Unix has it? > / Marc Barrett | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / >/ ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / -- +---------------------------------------+----------------------------+ | // Daryl S. Cantrell | These opinions are | | |\\\ milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu | shared by all of // | | |// Evolution's over. We won. | Humanity. \X/ | +---------------------------------------+----------------------------+