Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!nntp.hut.fi!killer From: killer@niksula.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: HELP: HOW ST MINIX RELOCATES Message-ID: Date: 25 Sep 90 13:57:15 GMT References: <31483@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: EOAHMAD%NTIVAX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu's message of 25 Sep 90 08:54:10 GMT In article <31483@nigel.ee.udel.edu> EOAHMAD%NTIVAX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >Please tell me how ATARI ST MINIX relocates memory since 68000 does >not have any hardware relocation built in and ATARI ST does not have >memory management unit that can do address translation necessary for >relocation. Atari Minix uses the same kind of relocation table added to files as TOS. >Does it just disallow absolute addressing modes? It would be rather No. See above. >I'm sure there is a better way. The only alternative that I can think of >is a relocating loader, but the output format for the ATARI ST MINIX >must contain relocation information just like the MSDOS EXE file format. I think this is the case. >Othman Ahmad, School of EEE, >Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore 2263 >E-mail: EOAHMAD@NTIVAX.BITNET