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Originally Posted by rkauer
MMU is not for memory management! Is intended for relocating portions of it using the MMU as a "pointer".
Example: when you copy the ROM into RAM and then "tricks" the OS and programs to look in a specific address instead the original.
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Not entirely true. It is used for example to mark Chip-RAM as non-cacheable as the Blitter can change data in chip ram without the CPU knowing.