jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeff Kantor) (07/21/88)
Does the PMMU do anything if you're not running A/UX? The reason I ask this is that I can buy a Mac II with A/UX and a PMMU for only marginally more than a machine without these things. Is there any utility to having a PMMU if you're not interested in running A/UX? My apologies if this has been thoroughly hashed out in the past. Jeff Kantor Notre Dame jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (07/22/88)
No. Scully has been making protected-mode operating system noises (see his interview in Computer Currents last spring) but nothing solid yet. A major redesign of the operating system will be required. But it can probably be made transparent to existing Mac applications. And it will have to be done eventually, now that the competition (OS/2) has protected mode operation. The virus problem isn't going to go away. John Nagle