Re: SV: Capabilities

[Matt Gumbley]

Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
> 
> > The Psion 3a have a simple memory protection of a range of address that
> the
> > program may write to, if a write outside these is attempted then an
> > interrupt is trigger - I will probably attempt to use this once I have
> code.
> > However it is possible for a malicious program (i.e. the stuff I have done
> > so far) to defeat this.
> 
> Well, can memory be protected at all on an 8086?
> --
> Thor Harald Johansen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Not as such; the Psion hardware includes a rudimentary MMU. The
processor is an NEC V30H.
-- 
Matt J. Gumbley