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From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Napalm)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 21:22:46 GMT

In article <0c9G.k-f1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>In article <1991Apr3.093614.15967@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>    The Mac doesn't have VM unless you count unreleased System 7. There is
>   another product called virtual that doesn't use an MMU but the only reason
>   this hack works is because Macs reference memory by double
>   dereferencing pointers. (They call it 'handles')
>
>You can buy inits that give you virtual memory for the Mac.  They(it)
>have been available for at least a year.  Actually, I think we are
>thinking of the same product.  If so, it requires the 68030 because it
>does need the MMU.  Anyway, System 7.0 is out next month so virtual is

We've heard this before. I think I first head this last year. "next month."


>available.  Will Amiga DOS 2.0 be available for the A500 soon?

a month before system 7? it seems Ms-dos 5.0, Workbench 2.0 and System 7 are in
a race to be the last os to be released. "next month" is all I hear.

>-Mike
>
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