scott wrote:
>>> So, asking a program to use 3MB of RAM on a 2MB Amiga with the VM 
>>> support is different to you trying to use more than 256MB on your 
>>> Windows machine how?
>>
>> 95% of all Amigas are factory standard. If your software requires 
>> custom hardware, you just lost 95% of your market.
>>
>> All PCs on the market already have VM hardware.
> 
> So it's ok for Amigas to be slow with VM, but for Windows PCs you expect 
> them to magically use VM as fast as normal RAM?

No, that's not what I'm saying.

What I was saying was that on the Motorola 68000 series, turning on the 
MMU (regardless of whether you use it to implement VM or whatever) 
imposed a largish performance hit on all running code. And that is all.

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