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AmigaOS 4 does use the MMU, but only to map pages to virtual addresses to for example help with memory fragmentation and swapping to disk. Here's some surprisi
by jug 10y ago
AmigaOS 4 does use the MMU, but only to map pages to virtual addresses to for example help with memory fragmentation and swapping to disk.
Here's some surprisingly thorough documentation on this:
http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Exec_Memory_Allocation http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Exec_Memory_Allocation
However, the MMU is not used for memory protection, not even on Amiga OS 4.
Edit: OK, so not entirely true... See this for more: http://www.os4coding.net/forum/memory-protection-support http://www.os4coding.net/forum/memory-protection-support