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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Was Re: Ftp'able POSIX ANSI drafts
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Date: 19 Aug 90 20:58:11 GMT
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In article <27802@nigel.ee.udel.edu> phi@insearch.cam.org (phi) writes:
>	Oh, no, please. Memory chips are getting dirt cheap now, and it's
>	getting harder and harder to find the 64K chip :-)

The 64K + 64K limit has nothing to do with physical memory.  It has to
do with the 8088's brain-damaged architecture.  As soon as Intel 
(1) fixes it and (2) removes all the existing 8088s (and 80286s) from
circulation, I'll do it.  I'm not going to go to infinite trouble to
handle teeny-weeny, tiny, little, medium, largish, big and huge models
on a bunch of different CPUs.  Someday, I suppose I'll go to a single
linear 32-bit address space on the 386, like MINIX for the 68000.

Priority now is POSIX however.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)