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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment
Message-ID: <726@curly.ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 18:30:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: curly.726
Posted: Tue Aug 19 18:30:32 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Aug-86 22:07:03 EDT
References: <508@elmgate.UUCP> <64@mit-prep.ARPA>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: 68000 atari amiga 68k mmu
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In article <64@mit-prep.ARPA> tmb@prep.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>
>I consider it a grave mistake not to have included even a rudimentary kind
>of address remapping on the Amiga; even just an adder on the address lines
>of the 68000 would have simplified the system software and allowed some
>kind of swapping to be hacked.
>						Thomas.

A reasonable attitute, but remember that both the Amiga and Atari were
intended to be affordable machines.  To this end, they contain only those
things that were considered to be needed - no 'it sure would be nice...'
type goodies.
-- 
George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)