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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix-ST context switch
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 21:10:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 21:10:46 1987
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Andrew Tannenbaum writes...
> True enough, but the average MINIX process is about 5K, not 100K, so we
> are talking 5 msec, not 100 msec.   Also, as soon as the child does an
> exec, the funny business is finished and the exec'd core image runs
> normally...

What about using the glue chip to relocate logical zero, or do MINIX
processes on the ST run in supervisor mode?
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