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From: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request / Hot links
Message-ID: <8107@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 15 May 89 02:20:56 GMT
References: <17209@usc.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <17209@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) says:
> AmigaDOS and it might not be TOO difficult to add to a future version of the 
> Amiga system software.  I am claiming that 1.4 SHOULD include support for VM.
> If possible, I would suggest that one of the V1.4 sessions at the June DevCon
> include a discussion on "VM & 1.4" (of course if Dave Haynie doesn't show up
> with VM-SetCPU :-) Andy? Lauren?

Well, Marco, I agree that a future version of AmigaDOS should include
support for VM. But I rather think it'll make it into 1.5 rather than
1.4. 1.4 should be fairly well along right now, only a few months away
from the point of throwing to QA (into which it'll disappear for six
months, of course). Delaying the release of 1.4 (and all its
advantages -- a real Workbench, improved FFS, re-written DOS, etc.)
just for the benefit of a few people who have A2620 boards seems
pretty ridiculous to me.

On the other hand, I do agree that one of the V1.4 sessions at June
DevCon should deal with "VM & AmigaDOS". The standards for future VM
processing should be decided on, and should be explicitly stated in
the 1.4 "Bible" so that when 1.5 comes out things can transition as
easily as possible. 

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