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From: HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix on 386 machines
Message-ID: <5998@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 88 18:52:00 GMT
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Update regarding a 386 Minix:
I posted a message about a week ago asking for information regarding
Minix on 386 machines.  Apparently, no special 386 Minix exists.
What a few of us intend to do is create a 386 version of Minix that
will definitely:
   - Use demand-paged virtual memory (giving access to 4Gb address space)
   - Use hardware task management (for super-fast task switching)
   - Implement message queueing (to eliminate lots of problems)
It has been suggested that making the file system map files into
virtual memory would be good (apparently like SUN/OS 4.0), which
sounds like a good idea.
Comments would be appreciated.
- Guy Helmer
  South Dakota Tech
  BITNET: HELMER@SDNET
  UUCP: ghelmer@loft386 (or) ...!killer!warble!loft386!ghelmer