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From: kimmel@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu (Mathew Kimmel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Coherent questions
Message-ID: <1991May24.033415.23636@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 03:34:15 GMT
Sender: kimmel@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Mathew Kimmel)
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I just bought Coherent 3.1.0 and I think it's the greatest thing ever.
Imagine, Unix for $100!  Anyway, I have a couple of questions:

1. Is it possible to access expanded memory from Coherent, a la EMM.SYS
   in DOS?  It's kind of demoralizing to see Coherent boot with 455K
   of memory free, when I have a megabyte of RAM.

2. Is there an improved version of the shared memory driver and
   corresponding lib functions that implements shmat() and shmdt()?
   ftok() would be nice too, although I guess I could hack that myself.

3. Is there any way at all to get around the 64K code segment limit?
   Does this new kernel that keeps being mentioned on this group solve
   the problem?

Any and all answers would be much appreciated...

-Matt


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