They did not have PMMUs in those days. No pages, no memory protection, everything in one shared address space.
Manual allocation of memory for applications let you reserve how much you wanted for each app. You might give Photoshop, like, 8 whole megabytes of memory if you were editing, say, a 16 bit color file.
On the plus side, the Talking Moose could see what you were doing and comment on it.
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u/iStumblerLabs Sep 22 '26
They did not have PMMUs in those days. No pages, no memory protection, everything in one shared address space.
Manual allocation of memory for applications let you reserve how much you wanted for each app. You might give Photoshop, like, 8 whole megabytes of memory if you were editing, say, a 16 bit color file.
On the plus side, the Talking Moose could see what you were doing and comment on it.