On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 08:27:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> virtual mode. aka v86 mode.
Ah. _That_ could be missing...
> I'm sure that was a typo, as virtual memory is a property of the operating
> system ;]
Nope. Any reasonable implementation of virtual memory (I'd say _any_
implementation, but I'm not an internals guru) requires hardware
support for the page table and page faults. An MMU is a _requirement_
though it _is_ possible to implement one externally.
Cheers,
-- jra
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