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From: vandys@hpindda.HP.COM (Andy Valencia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Question about Minix port
Message-ID: <3580007@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 88 18:12:52 GMT
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/ hpindda:comp.os.minix / HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Guy Helmer) / 11:31 am  Jan 27, 1988 /
>Anyone care to comment on how Minix runs if drivers (floppy, tty, hard
>disk) are modified to use synchronous ROM calls, such as exist on the
>IBM PC?
    Minix's structure doesn't allow much concurrency anyway, so it really
isn't much of a performance hit at all.  If memory serves, someone actually
replaced xt_wini.c with one which only used BIOS calls, and it worked
pretty well.  Wonder if they're still on the net....

			Andy Valencia
			vandys%hpindda.UUCP@hplabs.hp.com