Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
@ Crumb
I guess missing MMU access will not allow SheepShaver use the PPC directly, but I do not know. Same killer as it is for MOL on MOS.
Memory protection is hard to achieve without breaking the backward compatibility (apps do not ask for a memory access, they just do). That's one of the points the whole design was as chosen as it is. The unsecure ABox and the option for a secure future box (mumbling something about Q here - well, nobody knows what's going on with it, but theoretically...).
I don't know what the aproach by Hyperion, to give every task an own virtual (emulated) address space, is worth actually...
[ Edited by Zylesea on 2005/4/13 16:23 ]
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