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From: cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU c and c++ under MINIX
Message-ID: <7056@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 88 05:38:11 GMT
References: <3602@encore.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <3602@encore.UUCP>, by paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis):
> MAYBE if someone could figure out a way to break the
> 64K barrier (we're not even talking the 640K barrier here
> yet!) then we can start talking about putting GNU stuff up
> on MINIX.

If I understand what's been posted about the new 1.3 network software,
its interprocess communications facilities will enable Minix
to run those large applications which are written well enough to
allow a decomposition of the application into component processes.
This, however, would involve hand-modifying such programs by someone
intimate with their internals.  Further, the performance will be bad
unless amoeba messages run like greased lightning.  I don't know if
these criterion will apply to many GNU programs, but it certainly does
make Minix on the PC a more imaginable environment for me anyway.
Comments anyone?
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