Re: Virtual Memory

[dsb@cs.duke.edu (Scott Bigham)]

Stephan Haslbeck <haslbecs@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> asks:
>> I would also like to know who really _needs_ virtual memory or to whom it 
>> would be useful... And who cannot use it, because he has only 68000's 
>> running?

One 68000 here (MSTe), but planning to upgrade to a TT when my tax
refund comes back... ;)

Daniel Eriksson <root@icon.pp.se> observes:
>OTOH, if MiNT goes VM then we will loose every ST/STE/Mega-user,
>effectively reducing the installed user-base to a couple of hundred
>brave souls.

Not necessarily.  MiNT already does some auto-detect magic to determine
whether it should enable memory protection; could it not determine in a
similar fashion whether or not to enable VM?  [In fact, wouldn't it be
under exactly the same situation?]  Barring that, we could always have
one MiNT binary with VM and one without, and a smattering of
"#ifdef VM"'s in the source code.

						-sbigham