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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory in SCO Xenix ???
Message-ID: <536@spdcc.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 88 06:31:58 GMT
References: <3700001@nucsrl.UUCP> <8364@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <8364@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> In article <3700001@nucsrl.UUCP> naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah) writes:
> | Could anybody recommend a XENIX system for his needs ? Does anybody
> | know how much virtual memory SCO Xenix for the Compaq 386 allows you to
> | access ? Does their fortran compiler allow you access that memory (or
> | can you only get to it via C) ?

> The memory is managed by the o/s, language doesn't matter.

Careful there, Bill.  Although you're "right", you might be a little
misleading.  I'm not sure that there is a Fortran compiler available yet
for XENIX 386 which generates 386 code.  If our user isn't careful,
he might go out and purchase a version of Microsoft Fortran for XENIX 286
(which would run quite nicely on XENIX 386, I'd wager) but I am not at all
sure that product would give him seamless access to large data areas.
Remember, the UNIX "f77" compiler doesn't come with XENIX 286 or 386.

Maybe a Microsoft or SCO person could clarify this.  It might be that
Microport or ISC's offering, if either of them provides an F77 compiler
for the 386, would win out, provided they can also satisfy the virtual
memory requirements, and I would be surprised if they didn't.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
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