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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Intel-8086/80186-Assembler for System-V available ?
Message-ID: <+3A6RL4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 19:04:51 GMT
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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. 
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