Re: Another New Hardware Thought

[bieling@terra.es]

On May 2, 4:29 pm, "Steve ][" <s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I always (as of 20 minutes ago) thought that the most-needed IIGS
> hardware was a cheap accellerator, then a memory card, then storage.
> But what about a "MMU add-on"? I have no idea how impossible this
> would be, but I was thinking of something that would go into Slot 3
> that would provide the needed functionality so the IIGS could run a
> Linux-like OS or etc. Hey, while I'm dreaming, what about an
> accellerator that had a MMU on-board?

There's an MMU design for the 6502 here :
<http://www.baltissen.org/newhtm/mmu.htm>

Even though it would be nice to be able to arbitrarily remap chunks of
a bigger pool of physical RAM into the 64k address map of the 6502,
the opossite situation, where the physical RAM is a fraction of the
much larger addressable memory map is what makes an MMU really useful.
And that's no the case here.
Or is it ? What do you think ?

--Jorge.