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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bruce Evans' opus
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Date: 4 Jun 89 13:39:44 GMT
References: <16497@louie.udel.EDU> <11989@bcsaic.UUCP> <1989Jun4.025012.8674@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Jun4.025012.8674@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <11989@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes:
>>... We can choose either to
>>maintain the IBM version of Minix as a toy operating system, or
>>we can evolve it to support current hardware.  The Atari version
>>of Minix was apparently 'real' at the outset...
>
>Hey, toy operating systems for toy hardware, real ones for real hardware. :-)
>Anything with a cpu whose number ends in "86" is a toy.  :-) :-)

This was true up until the 386.

Q: What does the 386 call a 32-bit address space?

A: a segment.  :-)




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