Short: mmu.lib: examples, includes, (auto)docs Author: thorfdbg@alumni.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter) Uploader: thorfdbg alumni tu-berlin de (Thomas Richter) Type: docs/misc Version: 47.2.1 Requires: MMULib.lha, ShowDVI plus recent fonts or GhostScript Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 2.0.4 NOTE: This is the "Developer Distribution" of the mmu.library. The user distribution is in the "MMULib" archive and is required, too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 47.2.1 -------------- Thanks to Stefan Haubenthal for finding some typos in the manual, they have been fixed in this version. No other technical changes. Release 47.2 ------------- Reworked and polished the chapter about indirect descriptors, cleaned up and improved the language. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This archive contains a "RKRM style" documentation of the mmu.library, describing its functions and its purposes. It contains various program examples and gives the basic insight into the library mechanisms. The manual is included in "dvi" and "postscript" form, you need either a postscript printer (most recent laser printers include a postscript interpreter), a postscript interpreter like "ghostscript" from the Aminet, or a recent TeX installation to print the "dvi" file itself. The latter requires the installation of the relatively new "ec" fonts which can be found at the CTAN servers, e.g. ftp.dante.de. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purpose and goal of this library: The mmu.library is a basis for MMU (memory management) related functions the MC68K family can perform. Up to now certain hacks are available that program the MMU themselves (Enforcer,CyberGuard,GuardianAngle,SetCPU,Shapeshifter, VMM,GigaMem...). It's therefore not unexpected that these tools conflict with each other. There's up to now no Os support for the MMU at all - the gap this mmu.library fills. The goal is to provide a basis of functions to address and program the MMU in a hardware independent, Os friendly fashion. Hence, the new version of the Enforcer, called MuForce, will work together with virtual memory, and others. The mmu.library is also the basis for a virtual memory project, the memory.library. Even though the mmu.library does not provide virtual memory itself, it builds the basics to allow an easy implementation and to avoid the hacks required by other implementations so far. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The THOR-Software Licence (v2, 24th June 1998) This License applies to the computer programs known as the "mmu.library" and its sources. The "Program", below, refers to such program. The "Archive" refers to the package of distribution, as prepared by the author of the Program, Thomas Richter. Each licensee is addressed as "you". 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