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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Future of Minix
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Date: 14 Jul 89 22:36:23 GMT
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The problem with implementing GCC is that the memory manager would have be
rewritten to support 386 mode with the full 32-bit segments.  GCC demands a
32-bit address space because it's so huge.  Sozobin might be doable, I have
the source code, but I haven't taken a look at it.  I know that GCC will not
work with a 286 easily and it's nearly impossible on an 8086.  It can be done
in 8086 mode if you have a large chunk of LIM 4.0 memory.  The Evans' 286
kernel still only supports the 64K seperate I&D memory model.

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