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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory in SCO Xenix ???
Message-ID: <8578@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 16:24:49 GMT
References: <3700001@nucsrl.UUCP> <8364@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <536@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <536@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) 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) ?

| 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.

Thanks for clarifying this. My experience is that VM works for 286
programs, although they are in a segmented mode, limited to a "mere"
15MB, and run slower than the 386 version.

Someone with Ryan-McFarland FORTRAN says that they allow access to a
full 15MB address space. Corrections to the net if needed.

I would love to have an f77 compiler, but wouldn't pay more than $100
for it, since I never write in fortran, and the only programs I have are
games.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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