Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:02:00 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 03:36:44PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Er.. and AmigaOS had trouble moving to a virtual memory model, let > alone to a distributed network model.
But AmigaDOS was never designed to live in a virtual memory world. Just two examples, it doesn't have a facility to prevent certain memory from being swapped and memory pools are maintained with a granularity smaller than eight bytes, a number that is compiled into many apps.
Ralf
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