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From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU c and c++ under MINIX
Message-ID: <3602@encore.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 17:27:00 GMT
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Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
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Sorry, Bill, but in my opinion porting gnu-anything to MINIX
is a real problem.  Gnu software is essentially written for
machines with 32-bit address spaces and virtual memory.  Since
MINIX on the PC currently only supports 16-bit split I&D 
addressing, almost any gnu program would be far too big
to fit.  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.  Until then, your best bet is to scrounge up stuff
that was written for little PDP-11s running V7.  Said machines
had to contend with much the same problems that PCs running
MINIX have to contend with...


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Jim Paradis (paradis@encore.UUCP) 508-460-0500
Devout Secular Humanist and Worshipper of Bacchus in Vintage Years