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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: 386BSD - what a pain to install! Message-ID: <id.S2QT.C03@ferranti.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1992Sep27.091749.2076@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <id.X7NT.904@ferranti.com> <1992Sep30.035327.4082@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:46:48 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1992Sep30.035327.4082@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > In article <id.X7NT.904@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: > >> This is generally accomplished (by Xenix, as an > >> example) by only running code in medium model, where you have unlimited text > >> (read only) pages per program, but only 64K (1 segment) of data (read/write) > >> pages. > >This is not true. > >We've been running Xenix-286 for years with multiple data and multiple code > >segments. We're talking applications with megabytes of both. > Sorry. Peter is right for SCO Xenix, of course... but then again, that > won't compile for all 286 Xenix's... the resultant code runs only on SCO. Sorry yourself. I'm talking about Microsoft Xenix, which we've been doing this on since 1984 or 1985. It was possible for Microsoft Xenix in 1983, according to the copyrights on the earliest set of floppies I can find. The final (so far as I know) release was in 1987, with patches continuing after that. This release left Microsoft for Intel long before SCO took over. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp. 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012 +1 713 274 5180 Heb jij vandaag je wolf al geaaid ?