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From: PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] Borland's C++ BuilderX, Personal Edition
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:37:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050722073703.GA5352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42CFF030.4080609@peacemax.org>

On Sat, 2005-Jul-09 09:41:36 -0600, James Falknor wrote:
>   My ultimate goal is to bring Unix Version7 into the 21st century. 

That's already been done: Look at 2.11BSD.

Note that getting V7 (or 2BSD) running on a 286 is non-trivial.
Whilst both the PDP-11 and 286 are both 16-bit machines supporting VM,
the 286 MMU is extremely primitive compared to the PDP-11.  Your
biggest problem will be that the 286 does not support holes in the
address space - which means your data segment needs to cover both the
real data as well as the stack area and you lose brk limit checking.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-22  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-09 15:41 James Falknor
2005-07-10 20:21 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-07-10 20:25   ` Wilko Bulte
2005-07-10 21:06   ` James Falknor
2005-07-19 22:13     ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-07-20 17:21       ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-20 19:50         ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-07-21  7:41           ` Wesley Parish
2005-07-21  8:35             ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-07-21  9:27             ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-07-21 11:44               ` Wesley Parish
2005-07-21 17:15             ` Gunnar Ritter
     [not found]       ` <20050721164429.60aa8811.jrvalverde@cnb.uam.es>
2005-07-21 19:45         ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-07-10 21:09   ` James Falknor
2005-07-10 21:11   ` James Falknor
2005-07-10 23:28     ` M. Warner Losh
2005-07-11  3:43       ` James Falknor
2005-07-11  4:11         ` M. Warner Losh
2005-07-22  7:37 ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2005-07-20 21:17 Brantley Coile
2005-07-20 21:18 Brantley Coile
2005-07-21  0:35 James Falknor

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