Re: Eagle (Was: GEMDOS from VBL)

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:55:08 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

JES>But what's the big deal in running MiNT first? I think it works very
JES>well the way it works now, and don't see any point in changing it. Are
JES>there any good reasons for doing this?

Yes, the memory protection and/or paging and/or virtual memory. Once
MiNT touches MMU the previous FastRAM disappears (most probably), all
resident programs hang and underlying TOS crashes :-)

Petr
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