Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 02:33:56 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <24706.873711236@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 08:19:13 BST." <19970908081913.36000@pavilion.net>
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[Redirected mercifully to -chat; watch those mailing lists, folks! This is most definitely not -hackers fodder!] > On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 10:22:23AM +0930, Daniel J. O'Connor wrote: > > > to get messages to and from the kernel? > > Yeah, the Amiga had the 'advantage' of having no memory protection(at > > all), so you could just pass pointers around =) > > That's not entirely true. Is it? The 4000 had memory protection and the > same O/S. (a500 ran 68000, a4000 ran 68030/40). It didn't matter - the way the AmigaDOS service calling conventions were designed, you needed to be able to share memory trivially (and unprotectedly) with the OS so ye old Guru Meditation was still a frequent visitor even with a 68040 chip inside. Jordan
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