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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
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Date: 3 May 89 05:03:22 GMT
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In article <7988@killer.Dallas.TX.US> elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
|in article <16952@usc.edu|, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) says:
|| In article <6730@cbmvax.UUCP| daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
|||I predict Amiga's with MMU's will have it before the end of the year.

|| Do you mean 1.4 will support virtual memory and will show up by year's end?
|| No more GURUs if you have an A2620 or A2630.
|
|Sorry Marco. Virtual memory is no problem. Process protection
|(GURU-busting) is.
|So if your idea of heaven is to have a 10 megabyte RAD: device, and
|keep Excellence, X-WIndows, Superbase, and a half dozen other programs
|all running at the same time with no fear of running out of memory,
|you'll love what's coming. On the other hand, if your idea of virtual
|memory includes process protection, you're just plain out of luck.

For 1989, I'll settle for heaven #1, and pray for "Protected AmigaDOS" 
(heaven #2) for 1990.

Should I guess that SetCPU 2.0 will do "virtual memory", Dave?  [Have you
ever noticed the time Dave makes his postings? 5AM !:-)]

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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