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Re: Another New Hardware Thought
- Subject: Re: Another New Hardware Thought
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 23:08:21 +0200
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Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Don't MMU's also keep tasks from writing into the memory area of other
> tasks?
Depends on what you count as a MMU. The 80286 is usually called a
MMU-less processor, but it does offer memory protection.
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Linards Ticmanis