Re: MiNT VM on Falcon

[Petr Stehlik <stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz>]

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> > Anyway, it sounds like the MiNT 1.14 is not usable at all. Is anybody
> > around with MMU knowledges to fix it?
> 
> Well, MiNT 1.14 is fully useable as long as you don't use VM ;) I know
> that the VM is supposed to be the only difference between 1.12.6 and 1.14,
> but I noticed, and it refers at least to my machine, that 1.14 is more
> stable than 1.12.6 when used as MultiTOS kernel (i.e. with AES 4.10): I

It would be good to find out what is causing the better stability of 1.14.

> have a program that causes a lockup when ran on MiNT 1.12.6 + AES 4.10 and
> is running fine on 1.14 + the same AES. The proggy does nothing, just does
> an usual startup code (Mshrink(), appl_init(), v_opnvwk()) then executes a
> infinite assembler loop. I wrote this to check if in the MultiTOS you have
> a real preemptive multitasking and was really surprised when MTOS 1.12 got
> locked up dead.... :))))

Hmm, that's interesting. I must try that out.

Petr
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