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From: anton@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Jeff Anton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: MMUs versus memory protection
Message-ID: <11032@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 23:41:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 23:41:55 1985
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Reply-To: anton@ucbvax.UUCP (Jeff Anton)
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Hear! Hear!

If the Amiga had memory bounds checks on processes in hardware (and
low level documentation) I'll have burnt $$$ on it by now.
I've been waiting for a SUN to appear in my bedroom for too long.
Maybe I'm behind the times, but I want a system that will do what I
command it to do.  And I've the talent to command at all levels
of a system.  I want to be given a chance to add my own hardware
and system software to support it.  Having written an editor, lisp
interpreter, modem communications package, etc. for my CP/M system
I want to keep my software.  Much of system software for small
systems is convoluted or lazy.  I may want to add kernel level networking
or something big like that.

I'm saddened to find that so many people who are getting their first
tastes of programming are satisfied by blistor packed, sanatized, and
user handholding systems.  Give me a good compiler, a bus extender, and
a logic probe instead.

These small systems are approching increadable power; but, like video
games, the power is always special cased or just raw.  I suspect
that today's Amiga if it had 1 Meg of memory + hard disk + memory
protection, would surpass the performance of systems MUCH more expensive.
It's inevitable I guess when the vulture capitalists target their
work on one type of buyer.

I want to sell the following stickers:
Mac: When I grow up, I want to be a SUN
Amiga: When I grow up, I want to be an IRIS
ST: No respect
PC: Trust me, I'm here to help you.
INTEL: Which way did they go? Which way did they go?
ATT: It has to be a standard, we built it.
System V: If it weren't a standard, it would be sub-standard.

It looks like I'll be getting a SUN in maybe a year.
Or maybe I'll wait for the Cray on a chip Bill Joy predicts
will exist in 1987, is in a machine.
-- 
C knows no bounds.
					Jeff Anton
					U.C.Berkeley
					Ingres Group
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