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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MMU?
Message-ID: <2178@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 09:52:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 09:52:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 02:09:48 EDT
References: <315@aeras.UUCP> <172200081@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <172200081@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> > Ok.  I've read all the documentation I can get my hands on, and read all
> > the marketing hype, and hundreds of articles in this newsgroup.  I've
> > asked all my friends who might know, and I still don't know if there's a
> > real programmable MMU in the Amiga.  Seesh.
> > 
> > Could some kind soul tell me what the scoop is?  Thanks!
> 
>     you don't smell any smoke.
>     you don't feel any heat.
>     you don't see any flames (well...).
>     isn't it beginning to sink in that there isn't any fire?
>     there is no "real programmable MMU in the Amiga".
>     s[h]eesh.
> 
> 	wayne hamilton

Clarification:  the Amiga has no MMU and we don't claim that it does.
Many people have, however, suggested here that it should have one, or
that some sort of memory protection would be helpful in a program
development environment.  This is quite possible so, however when one
designs a machine, one must decide between things that are necessary
and those that are merely desirable.  The optimum leads to lots of
happy customers, the extremes are less pleasant.
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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