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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: A real operating system ?
Keywords: future 1.5
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Date: 12 Mar 90 08:29:11 GMT
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In article <25eda193.62e3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
%In my opinion, Minix is close to being a "real" OS.  Here is what I think
%it still lacks:
%   - Support for full use of available memory by programs.  In the 80x86 world
%     this means support for the large memory model.
%   - Support for the math chip in context switches (has this been added?)
%   - Support for the full range of hard and floppy disk types available
%     on whatever platform it is running on.
%   - Swapping (has this been added?).
%   - Spooled printing.

How about virtual memory, so a large address space can be supported?

Ken Hendrickson N8DGN        kjh@usc.edu        ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh