Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hurricane 68020 & O/S speedup Message-ID: <8052@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 15 Jan 88 20:14:24 GMT References: <271@dalcsug.UUCP> <3146@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 17 In article <3146@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >Buy a Commodore-Amiga A2620 board if you can wait a little longer. At least >for A2000s. This board has an MMU on it. Among other things an MMU can do >for you, it can translate addresses. So you allocate an appropriate 256K >block of memory. Copy ROM into it. Set up the MMU to translate that chunk >of memory to the normal ROM addresses. You now have the OS in RAM, and no >problems with relocating the ROM or such things. Hey, CATS, is CA going to make a 68020 + MMU board for the A1000? If a third party can do it, CA can do it. Sean -- -- Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitneT -- (the Empire guy) {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!sean -- University of Kentucky in Lexington Kentucky, USA -- "If something can go will, it wrong."