Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!udel!mmdf From: CELSO%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: PC Minix Memory Models (Was (none)) Message-ID: <21816@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 12 Jun 90 20:37:59 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 31 Doug Ingraham writes: > What bothers people most about the 64K I & 64K D space limitation? Is > it the 64K Instruction or the 64K Data? If it is the instruction limit > that is less of a problem. We could implement a form of Shared Library > where all the library routines that are used by the Kernel+MM+FS and any > other routines used by the vast majority of the commands would be in its > own 64k space. I call this a Global Shared Library. If it is the 64K > Data as I suspect then there is no good easy solution. > > In addition to the idea of the Global Shared Library I would like to > see shared Text. Perhaps someone might assign this as a class project > next Fall so that it could get into version 2. Both of these things > would benefit users of other CPU's as well. Some time ago (by the end of January), I posted difs to implement shared text on PC-Minix 1.1. Robert Regn from Wuerzburg University, Germany, ported the difs to 1.3 PC on a class project. He sent me a copy of his version, so if somebody want the dif files, I would deliver a copy. Valdir Rossi Belmonte BITNET: celso@sbu.ufrgs.anrs.br celso%sbu.ufrgs.anrs.br@brfapesp.bitnet celso%sbu.ufrgs.anrs.br@lbl.gov UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, BRAZIL