droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege) (07/18/88)
In article <846@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >space considerably in excess of 1 MB, and more. This is the full ACK, >which is indeed sold for $995 (university price) and is aimed at VAX and SUN >class machines, not PC and AT class machines. It also includes front ends for >other languages and back ends for 8080/8086/Z80/Z8000/68000/68020/VAX/PDP-11 >6502/NS32032 and other CPUs. Is there a 80386 backend under development ? I think, there should be a number of 386-ATs around now, and it might be interesting to use the features of that CPU for another Version of MINIX. The best would be to use MINIX-PC as development System for MINIX-386, and thus to have a cross-compiler with just another backend as the usual MINIX cc. So 1) is there or will there be a 80386 backend for the ACK System, that 2) will run under MINIX-PC ? Detlev -- Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz (EWH), Informatik / Rechenzentrum, Rheinau 3-4, D-5400 Koblenz (West Germany) UUCP: ..!unido!infko!droege droege@infko.UUCP (Voice: +49 261 12156)
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (07/20/88)
In article <387@infko.UUCP> droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege) writes: >Is there a 80386 backend under development ? Not at the moment, although the 8088 code generator of course works on the 386. Perhaps someday we'll get around to it, if we can scare up a person to do it. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)