Author: The Paranoid (spock.Chemie.Uni-Mainz.DE)
Date: 10-02-2002 09:38
Memory protection means that a process is prevented from accessing memory that it did not allocate.
Some - especially older - programs however were meant to run under TOS and TOS gives ALL memory available to the process started - it never was meant to run more than one application anyway.
While it is a must under Linux that programs live with memory protection, this is not really true for TOS programs.
Personally, i run MiNT/N.AES with no memory protection (well, i use TOS mostly, but if i run MiNT/N.AES ;-) and the machine is relatively reliable and most applications i use cooperate nicely.
Therefore, i recommend to run MiNT with no memory protection.
Upgrading MultiTOS and MiNT are actually two kinds of shoes. MiNT is the kernel that MultiTOS is based on, but without an additional AES, you can't have a multitasking GEM environment.
What is generally called MultiTOS is nothing but a (by now) old MiNT-kernel plus a (rather mediocre) AES-replacement.
Hence i recommend to upgrade MiNT to a fairly new version AND upgrade the AES you run. Since MultiTOS is not being developed any further, i suppose trying N.AES (commercial) or XaAES (free ?) instead of MultiTOS is the best solution.
Good luck with it. :-)
The Paranoid
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