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Offline Cymric

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Re: Why not AmigaOS4 for x86 Platforms?
« on: January 30, 2005, 12:15:47 PM »
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Amiga‘s legacy message system would be an issue. This is related to memory protection issues.

But are those issues that great? The way I understood it was that OS4 will introduce virtual memory (albeit in the 'off'-position with default setups), and that messaging will proceed via shared memory. I know that the OS3.x API has a flag you can pass to AllocMem() to indicate you want to allocate shared memory, although on those systems there is really no difference between normal and shared since its all one flat memory space anyway. In theory, programs which allocated everything by the book should have no problems on OS4, right? Or am I missing something?
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