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John, they were cheaper? Given that you have quite a bit less to test on the chip prior to releasing the chip to the retailer/OEM, it saves resources that the manufacturer could spend elsewhere, such as on developing a PPC. Given that savings, and that many users don't seem to care much about having an MMU, after all what good is one on an Amiga?, you charge less, and sell more. Sorry, it makes perfect economic sense here. Now if you want to run VMM, NetBSD, or some other very strange thing, then you need to upgrade. For the average game user, which is characteristic of our community (remember?), who cares. Sell 'em a cheap chip which reduces the end user cost and sells more machines. It's us "power-users" that need the MMU, or indeed, more than a 24-bit address space. Brian Been there…. Done that…. Better.