Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:02:00 +0200


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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