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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The future of MINIX
Message-ID: <2056@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 10 Jul 89 17:11:16 GMT
References: <2835@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1989Jul8.171336.27399@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <1989Jul9.023852.21674@tmsoft.uucp>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.mq.oz (Bruce Evans)
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In article <1989Jul9.023852.21674@tmsoft.uucp> mshiels@tmsoft.UUCP (Michael A. Shiels) writes:
>Will the protected mode version work on a 386 machine?  I am not

Yes, assuming the machine is AT-compatible apart from the processor. This
does not use 32-bit mode so still suffers from small segments.

It (the same binary) will also run on an 8088, by avoiding the small parts of
the code specific to protected mode.

I am working on a full 32-bit version. It runs, but there is no practical
compiler for it yet.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.oz.au