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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga memory management query
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 08:50:38 EDT
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> Does anyone know how the Amiga does multiprogramming
> safely without a memory-management unit?  The Byte article
> makes no mention of MMU hardware.

There isn't one, so it doesn't do it safely, although the Amiga loyalists
are kind of blind about this  point.  I think that when you boot up a 
couple of different software packages, all of them doing their own thing all
over absolute address space, you have a fairly severe problem.

Especially if, as has been the case with every other PC, third party
software developers take liberties with the OS and its entry points.

-- 
						Mark Roddy
						Net working,
						Just reading the news.

					(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)