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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: About Atari's, Mac's, and IBM's
Message-ID: <1534@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 88 02:35:19 GMT
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
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In article <226500010@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
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>>Does it communicate through the SCSI interface of the mac?
>Not to my knowledge.  What is it you want to communicate?
Well, not directly.  But there are several companies that sell converter
boards that go for about $100 to $140 each.

>>Can it use a Paged Memory Managment Unit?
>You mean like swapping memory out to disk?  No, there is no micro with that
>facility that I know of.
I think I need to ask what a "Paged Memory Management Unit" is.  
There are micro software implementations that provide virtual memory
to the user by swapping from the disk.
I think I agree that there is no such implementation for the ST!

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