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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request / Hot links
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Date: 17 May 89 19:04:11 GMT
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In article <4182@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM| wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
|In article <17209@usc.edu|, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|| 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".
|
|Well I don't agree.  There is a much more basic problem that should be
|addressed before virtual memory is added to the Amiga.  This is the
|problem that there are two pools of different memory in the Amiga.
[.. details omitted]
|Amiga.  The above changes may require some changes in the custom
|chips, since some things like the VIEW are global, but maybe not.

That's the problem with you approach. The ECS is not even out, and it
can't be changed in the short term.  Virtual Memory could be added with
only changes in the software.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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