km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (01/09/85)
Are there any rumors of 4.2 ports to the PC/AT? Is there
a reason why it would not be practical?
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km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANETguy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (01/11/85)
> Are there any rumors of 4.2 ports to the PC/AT? Is there > a reason why it would not be practical? How good is the 80286 at 32-bit integers? If the answer is "very poor", forget it - I'd estimate several programmer-months of work converting 4.2BSD to use "long" for everything that must be 32 bits (if it's even practical at all). If it can add and subtract them reasonably well, that's probably enough - the 68010 can't do better, and there are several 4.2 ports to it. How good is the 80286 at paged virtual memory? Can the memory mapper handle an address space made up of fixed-size pages, not all of which need be resident? If not, you'd have to hack a lot to make a segmented system out of 4.2. And now for the $64,000 question: how good is the 80286 at 32-bit pointers? If the answer is "very poor", forget it. I've not heard of any ports; I suspect the answer to at least one of the above questions is "not good enough". Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
kyle@ucla-cs.ARPA (Kyle D. Henriksen) (04/22/86)
Has anyone ported 4.2 BSD UNIX for the 286 mode of the IBM PC/AT?
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