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From: droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ACK '386 backend ? (was: Minix C Compiler Sources ...)
Keywords: C Compiler Sources 386
Message-ID: <387@infko.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 13:52:16 GMT
References: <290@enlog.Wichita.NCR.COM> <846@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege)
Organization: University of Koblenz (EWH), West Germany
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In article <846@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>space considerably in excess of 1 MB, and more.  This is the full ACK, 
>which is indeed sold for $995 (university price) and is aimed at VAX and SUN 
>class machines, not PC and AT class machines. It also includes front ends for 
>other languages and back ends for 8080/8086/Z80/Z8000/68000/68020/VAX/PDP-11
>6502/NS32032 and other CPUs.

Is there a 80386 backend under development ?

I think, there should be a number of 386-ATs around now, and it
might be interesting to use the features of that CPU
for another Version of MINIX.
The best would be to use MINIX-PC as development System for
MINIX-386, and thus to have a cross-compiler with just
another backend as the usual MINIX cc.

So 1) is there or will there be a 80386 backend for the ACK System,
that 2) will run under MINIX-PC ?

	Detlev
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