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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Intel-8086/80186-Assembler for System-V available ?
Message-ID: <15925@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 20:09:28 GMT
References: <:C96DR1@xds13.ferranti.com> <15919@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <+3A6RL4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <+3A6RL4@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <15919@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>> Wait a minute -- it is not my impression that, regardless of the
>> hosting platform, the 86 language tools would ever use more than a meg
                         ^^
                         ^^
>> of memory.  Inside, all hosted versions are really the same 8086 OMF
>> files containing the same code.  All that differs is the wrapper or
>> special loader used.
>
>Sorry, the Xenix 286 products we're using are indeed written in iAPX286
                  ^^^
                  ^^^
>native mode. These run under Xenix System III, Xenix System V, and UNIX
>System V.
>
>From a recent BND286 run:
                  ^^^
                  ^^^
> 
>SUMMARY OF MEMORY USAGE 
> 1686KB MEMORY USED FOR SYMBOLS   
>   16KB DISK SPACE USED FOR SYMBOLS. 

We are zeroing in on something other than the original question.  Who
has seen how PLM86, for instance, behaves on the 286 platform?  I still
bet they don't use more than a meg.


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