Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4

[Iggy]

:confused:

Sorry...fpu.

That was confused, wasn't it.

[Iggy]

Yes, especially since you wrote "remapping", as memory mapping is the job of an MMU :p
Ah, that part was about MMU. See? You threw me off, and brain stopped working

Obviously, mine was on hold...:lol:

Guess I was still stunned at the announcement that an fpu would be part of the V4.

[Iggy]

Some words of wisdom from Apollo Core forum regarding the MMU and Amiga:

-- "it slows the computer down"
-- "98% or more of classic Amiga software development was done on a 68K processor which didn't have an MMU."
-- "Having an MMU to debug and trap illegal instructions was a nice feature that came along later and only served to encourage poor programming habits by assembly programmers."
-- "Some creative developers just wrote some tools to take advantage of the MMU for debugging later in the Amiga's life cycle since one had been integrated into the 68030 and above."

"Wisdom", huh?
MMUs provide functionality unrelated to debugging or trapping illegal instructions.
And poor programming habits seem to be a frequent problem in the Amiga community that limiting hardware functionality is not going to improve.