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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Minix & 8088 laptops
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Date: 26 Jul 90 05:40:34 GMT
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Has anyone run Minix on a 8088 laptop?  Specifically, I'd like to know
about the Toshiba T1000SE.  If I get a T1000SE with 3 Meg, can Minix
use the extra memory at all?  Only for a RAM disk?  Or can I run
processes above 1M on an 8088?

    I have a 286, and I know that you can run processes above 1M on
an AT, but I vaguely remember hearing it can't be done on an 8088.  Is
this true?  It would be a semi-major factor if in buying if I find I
can't run more than 640K in Minix on a 8088.  (Buying == for the laptop,
I already have Minix :-) )

-- 
"The number of programs that can be done with the Hubble Space Telescope has
always greatly exceeded the time available for their execution, and this
remains true even with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science
Working Group and User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29.
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