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From: rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Alice Waters)
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Subject: What's the Catch?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 16:31:04 GMT
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Before folks get too excited about the prospect of porting big things like
TCP/IP or X11R-anything to Coherent, allow me to point out one little thing
that might rain on that parade a wee bit-- the compiler only supports small
model.  That means 64K code and 64K data, max.  Now, you could do some creative
things with a ram disk to make things work, but it isn't going to be a matter
of just changing a few defines in the code to get big things to compile-- its
going to be the sort of port where you really get your hands dirty.  I 
personally would want to have a good assurance that a 32-bit version of the
operating system was not going to come out the day after I finished a port like
that, but that might just indicate a character flaw on my part.

-- 
	Scott Rose
	rose@cs.wisc.edu
	(608) 238-3801