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From: hall@pnet01.cts.com (Robert R. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How complete is MINIX? Test with GNUEmacs and X-windows
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Date: 31 Oct 90 18:16:05 GMT
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windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller) writes
>.flame on
>1) On which machine/architecture?
>
>8086	forget it --- GNU is too big for 64K data +64K instructions,
>	we just about got Flex (gnu lex) compiled, but it BARFFED badly
>	when we tried to run it.
>

Aren't you exaggerating a bit? It did not BARF badly.  I thought Ronald
Lambert did an excellent job in selecting the initial array sizes to have
Flex run on the IBM-PC and it did process his example file he included
with his posting of Flex.  True it would not process the data file
used by Flex itself uses but Flex does run on the IBM-PC and I fail
to see why it has not been accepted.


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