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From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Re: Amiga memory management query
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 12:12:26 EDT
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In article <462@enmasse.UUCP> mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) writes:
>> Does anyone know how the Amiga does multiprogramming
>> safely without a memory-management unit?  The Byte article
>> makes no mention of MMU hardware.
>
>There isn't one, so it doesn't do it safely, although the Amiga loyalists
>are kind of blind about this  point.  I think that when you boot up a 
>					(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)
I have heard (from someone looking under the hood) that the Atari 520ST
has a chip labelled "MMU". Is this an MMU? Is it any good? If so, this
would seem to be a significant advantage for the ST.


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