Tom Zerucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:28:59PM -0700, Steve Sabram wrote:
> > Michael Sokolov wrote:
> >
> > > Dragonball lacking a virtual address-translating MMU. Does ARM have an MMU and
> > > virtual addresses? If it does, you will simply forget about all these
> > > contortions and program like on UNIX.
> >
> > NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
>
> > Virtual memory would kill everything that makes a Palm perform well
> > at this price point. This is the primary reason why WinCE
> > performance is so poor. If you need something like that, do a
> > wireless LAN link to a server and just have the handheld access it.
>
> So that's why they have CF card slots - they need somewhere to keep
> the swapfile :).
OK, I see that I was completely misunderstood. I was not talking about virtual
memory, I was talking about *virtual address space* so that everyone can have a
sane memory model with globals, etc.
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