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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: A real operating system ?
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Date: 20 Mar 90 11:10:14 GMT
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(Concerning 16-bit ints)
Well, the problem simply is that there is much software which makes
illegal assumptions on the size of int's and which you don't want
either to reject or to fix.

      C.v.W.