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From: jans@tekecs.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment
Message-ID: <7578@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 13:38:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekecs.7578
Posted: Wed Aug 27 13:38:01 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Aug-86 21:35:17 EDT
References: <508@elmgate.UUCP> <64@mit-prep.ARPA> <653@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <270@dmsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: jans@tekecs.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Keywords: 68000 atari amiga 68k mmu
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In article <270@dmsd.UUCP> bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass) writes:
>In article <653@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>> A reasonable attitute, but remember that both the Amiga and Atari were
>> intended to be affordable machines...
>
>Consider that (for) a simple paging mmu... we are talking under $45 at
>the shelf. This is the difference between the ST being a game machine and
>having the support for process issolation and error detection for a strong
>bussiness machine.

I don't quite buy that.  Look at the #1 business machine -- what kind of MMU
does it have?  The Atari has just about the same features as the IBM PC --
including lack of reasonable system software.  The Amiga at least made an
attempt to make up for the lack of an MMU with good system software.
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