Memory Management in AmigaOS4.0 Explained

[AmigaHeretic]

@Tigger

My issue is this, when I started using computers, at which point most of the guys from Hyperion were breast feeding or not yet born, computers didnt have moniters, you typed a line it showed up on the piece of paper if you were lucky, we also had cards, but thats another story. Moniters for terminals were a big technical innovation, they came after the theory of slab programming, which is used in XP, Linux, (huge list of OSs deleted). Its not innovative for an OS to take an idea older then the amiga computer and which is used by everyone else as our memory management system, its ok to do that, but dont write an article about the innovation of the memory system, when its just like everyone elses.

Maybe you should check out what is written and "being presented" before you make an ass of yourself.

The VERY first refence link "[1] The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator (1994)" shows the date "1994".  If you looked at that you see in the first section for "Citations" is a link to "The Art of Computer Programming (context) - Knuth - 1968"  Yeah that's right "1968"!!

I mean clearly they don't want you to know this has been around for a long time, clearly they want you to think they invented it, it's plainly obvious this is just marketing and they are trying to hide the truth.  CONSPIRACY!! I say.

AmigaGuy  :roll:

[AmigaHeretic]

@JoannaK

before the few remaining user's loses their interest.

Get a grip.  We haven't EVER had memory proctection.  We haven't had it for 20 years!!  If you're still an "Amiga" user it's probably not, after all these years, going to make any difference if they implement it now, in the future, or ever.  I highly doubt this is to "keep the few remaining users", that's as absurd as it gets around here.  

AmigaGuy  :lol:

[AmigaHeretic]

First of all why is this a ground breaking system like hyperion claims if its from 1968

Again, did you READ anything?? Could you point me to the phrase where it says "Ground Breaking" because I think you're full of {bleep}.  

I can't see anywhere in the article that they say they invented this technology or that it's ground breaking.  Just more crap from the usual suspects.

What a joke.

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

So you're telling me you're wrong and they didn't say it was "ground breaking"?  "Ground breaking" meaning something that's never been done before??  

"our desire to bring this new version of the Operating System to the cutting edge - AmigaOS4.0 has introduced a better way of doing things"

"A better way of doing things" - Isn't it better to have memory protection than not?  "Their desire to bring AmigaOS to the the cutting edge" - Adding memory protection is helping to get that desire fullfilled.  One step at a time...

"This is just one more example of the technical innovations we are bringing to AmigaOS4.0 to make the greatest Operating System of the past into the greatest Operating System of the future."

So you're saying SLAB wasn't a technical innovation?  Strange I wonder why it got so widely adopted.  Hmmm... I suppose the internet wasn't a technical innovation since it was around in the 60's and if someone made a device that allowed you to get on the internet on your "cell" phone, now that wouldn't be an innovation right, because the internet has been around since the 60's.   :roll:


Still missing their 'ground breaking' claims or that they have invented something.

AmigaGuy