Peter da Silva wrote:
The problem is that virtually NO software set the PUBLIC and PRIVATEYou can't, because the API that would have allowed you to usefullyI beg to differ, the end result is much the same and you have explained it well. There were always problems with the third party programs and I guess it could never be a true VM system even if they worked well, they dont.
take advantage of VM got screwed up by early application developers
who didn't use it, so it was never turned into a real VM system.
flags correctly on their memory requests, so you STILL have to
allocate memory out of a big common pool... you can't track and
page private memory for inactive processes because you never know
when some inactive memory might be needed by an active program.
Thank you Peter, atleast I now have a understanding of why it wasn't included with the OS and also why these after market VM programs are so fussy about what they will and wont work with.
I dont own a A1000 but found the A500 with 2 mb of chip and 8mb of fast ram was about all that machine ever need, the 2.1 rom also helped, its much the same with the A1200, a 32mb dimm and I really never saw the need for VM.
The 1000 and 500 are both 68000 cpus and so had no access to VM in the first place. Am I wrong in that assessment?
The 1200 was a 020, it was 1997 before I used bloatware that would have been nice to have VM to run, nicer still to just get more mac ram (was what the sales dude called it), in the end the miggy was better for it in my small opinion. I've never missed VM and the machine is faster without it in my opinion.
I have to re catalog my commodore/amiga software, may I send you a list of names of the programs I am refering to offlist?
Thank you for the info.
They sold it to Gateway, I knew then it was past time to leave.
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