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From: EPRF%SNYCENVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Peter Flass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Direction of MINIX
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Date: 12 Jun 89 15:14:15 GMT
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-- How to handle "large model" programs in 8086 systems --
My vote, in the interests of keeping things simple, would be to have
MINIX-PC continue to keep track of one-each I and D "segments", but allow
the segments to be arbitrarily large.  The compiler should be responsible
for managing pointers to map the Minix segment to the 8086 segment.

I don't see a need, in general for sophisticated memory management in
Minix, but the operating system should keep out of an application's way
as much as possible. One program should be able to use all free memory
if necessary.

      - Pete


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