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- From: Chewy@cup.portal.com (Paul Frederick Snively)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Why blat won't work on some machines
- Message-ID: <70119@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 13:00:21 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Lines: 15
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- re: why Blat won't work on IIci et al...
-
- I suspect, but have not verified this with Bo3b Johnson, that Blat won't work
- on any machine that support infernal [sic] video, because the use of infernal
- video causes the machine's memory to get remapped such that part of your RAM
- becomes `video RAM' that doesn't `belong to the system,' per se.
-
- As someone who has had occassion to try to write PMMU code on the Mac before
- in a previous life, let me tell you, I can understand why someone wouldn't
- want to try to remain compatible with something else mapping memory out from
- under you, and for those of you who don't know him, trust me; Bo3b Johnson is
- a brilliant dude (read: if he ain't tackling it, I'm not about to).
-
- Paul Snively
- Former DTSoid
-