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From: ceriel@cs.vu.nl (Ceriel Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PC Minix/64KB limit
Message-ID: <2052@ceriel.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Feb 89 08:44:27 GMT
References: <415@lzaz.ATT.COM> <2485@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <417@lzaz.ATT.COM> <10171@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: ceriel@cs.vu.nl (Ceriel Jacobs)
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In article <10171@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes:
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>Part of the problem is finding a compiler that knows about far pointers.  
>Microsoft didn't invent far pointers!  Apparently, a large-model ACK compiler 
>for the 8086 exists, but for some reason will not fit in Minix.  Too bad.  

This is not true. There is no large-model ACK compiler for the 8086.

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