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From: wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Need info on Minix and Coherent...
Keywords: Minix, Coherent
Message-ID: <22.Apr.91.174458.50@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 21:44:58 GMT
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In article <OXWAWN8@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>...

>Minix: 8086 O/S, with 386 version available by applying patches. See
>	comp.os.minix.

	Woops.  The current official version of Minix (1.5) runs in protected
mode on the 286.  It allows 64K of instruction and 64K of data space.  It
also lets you run programs in "extended" memory.  I believe this is on
a par with Coherent.

>Coherent: 80286 O/S, no 80386 version available. See comp.os.coherent.

				Bill Bogstad