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From: sid@chinet.UUCP (Sid Grange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another Amiga competitor?
Message-ID: <1630@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 19:30:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1630
Posted: Sat Sep 26 19:30:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:44:56 EDT
References: <2901@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <812@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: sid@chinet.UUCP (Sid Grange)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: VM and Memory management
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.misc:837 comp.sys.amiga:8797

In article <812@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <2901@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
>> The os (arthur) is not multitasking, although the editor allows background
>> compiles.
>
>Another Atari ST or Mac competitor, then. If the O/S isn't multitasking it's
>not in the same market as the Amiga. I bought this machine because I couldn't
>afford a Sun, not because I wanted a pocket Cray.

In the Byte article describing the machine, they say it has the capability
for VM and demand paging. The particular chip was called the MEMF chip,
and, as they put it, "..it translates between logical and physical
addresses to give a 32-megabyte logical address space. It provides memory
protection with 3 levels of access privilege: supervisor mode, operating
system mode, and user mode."  As was stated, the proprietary system doesn't
multitask, but this machines *seems* to have a reasonable potential for
running real Unix, where the Amiga does not (I've had one, and know it's
problems, so let's not debate it :-). Plus the machine appears to be over
four times faster than an Amiga or ST. On the other hand, it may never reach
the U.S.
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