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From: m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally )
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX on the Atari ST
Message-ID: <454@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 14:44:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 14:44:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 21:37:52 EST
Reply-To: m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally (dlsh))
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What a happy newsgroup this seems to be.

Mr. Tanenbaum recently mentioned that MINIX is being ported to the
Atari ST.  This has made me curious about the implementation.  I can
easily understand how memory management is accomplished on the iAPX 86
processors: code is all small model, and pointers are sixteen bits
long.  No real addresses need be floating around; everything is
dynamically relocatable.

The 68000, on the other hand, might pose a problem.  Will pointers be
sixteen bits long?  It seems to me that there will be some nasty code
involved in taking addresses of "auto" variables.

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Mike McNally                                    Digital Lynx Inc.
Software (not hardware) Person                  Dallas  TX  75243
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