(forwarded) RE: Moose revision 0!

[Dennis Marer]

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From: <newlin@ecn.purdue.edu>
Message-ID: <9302121631.AA22481@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: Moose Revision 0!
To: <haydedr@WKUVX1.BITNET>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 11:31:50 EST

>Also, our OS will not run on anything less than a 386SX, so is there
>perhaps a similar cutoff in the Motorola chips.  I mean, is there such
>a difference between, say, the 68020 and the 68030, that we should not
>develop for anything less than the 68030?

  The 68030 is only different from the '020 in that it has an
  MMU on board, where the '020 needs external support.

>And, about Mac support, isn't the user interface part of a Mac OS in
>ROM?

  Yup.  And parts of the ROM are not re-entrant.  (ICK!)

-John Newlin
 newlin@ecn.purdue.edu

PS- I don't have an alias set up for the list yet, could you forward this?


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