Re: Another New Hardware Thought

["Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com>]

I was thinking that with an MMU comes the possibility of one of the
small versions of Linux (not GNO/ME, which is a marvel in itself), and
with that comes GCC and a whole new range of apps and things to do
with the IIGS.


-- orig

On 2 May 2007 18:29:31 -0700, mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:

>A curious idea, but you really need an OS to support it.
>
>MMU's really only become useful when you're running more code than
>you've got RAM, facilitating virtual memory. There aren't really any
>practical applications that such small machines can run that require
>that amount of addressable space.