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Amiga was fun. I still miss Marble Madness and Hole-in-one Miniature Golf. And Tom Rokicki was a god.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Amiga was fun.
I still miss Marble Madness and Hole-in-one Miniature Golf.
And Tom Rokicki was a god.
- __david__ 13y agoI thought that at first too, but the link isn't about architectures like the Amiga or Mac OS 9 that ran without any memory protection from other processes. Memory is still virtualized and protected like modern systems, but it also gives every process a unique address space, so that pointers are unique across the system. Kind of an interesting idea. Seems like it would pair well with the NixOS way of doing things…
- vidarh 13y agoThere are at least a couple of AROS developers that wants to retrofit some level of memory protection onto AROS (which is API compatible with AmigaOS), while remaining single address space.
- bitwize 13y agoIn Amigaland virtual memory is still seen as a quaint but passing fad. I mean, how are you going to write your own interrupt handlers and schedule your own DMA transfers if you can access neither the CPU's interrupt vector nor the custom chip registers from your process's address space?