Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: A real operating system ? Keywords: future 1.5 Message-ID: <3612QZxds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 6 Mar 90 00:48:35 GMT References: <1383@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <25eda193.62e3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <3696@plains.UUCP> <5741@star.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 I feel compelled to pop this in... In article <5741@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > While it is clearly nowhere near BSD 4.3 or System V... Thank god! > There is only one real technical limitation, but one that the PDP-11 also > had: the 64K + 64K address limit. It is clearly getting to be a nuisance, > but I am very hesitant to hack in segments just for the 286. Good for you. Make no compromises with terrorist architecture! I might just get a 386SX machine just to run MINIX, even without VM. In the meantime, how about shared libraries? That'd cut the overhead problem down a bunch. Is anyone working on it? -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'