On Monday 15 March 2021 12:40:51 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > No it wouldn't, and we had it by the late '80's with the advent of > > 68040 abd 68060 accellerator boards for the Amiga's. But that flat > > memory model and poor production QC doomed it. Any program could > > make a missfire and write into another programs memory space, > > crashing the whole Mary Ann. > > Starting in '82 the 68010 added virtual memory and virtualization > suport.
But by then the amiga design was frozen until the funeral. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
