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What would you like to see most in minix?
Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!axion!vision!ukpoit!alan
From: a...@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: What would you like to see most in minix?
Keywords: 386, preferences
Message-ID: <1991Aug27.143432.10473@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 27 Aug 91 14:34:32 GMT
References: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1991Aug25.234450.22562@nntp.hut.fi> <1991Aug26.110602.19446@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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In article <1991Aug26.110602.19...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>yet) and segmentation. It's the segmentation that makes it REALLY 386
>dependent (every task has a 64Mb segment for code & data - max 64 tasks
>in 4Gb. Anybody who needs more than 64Mb/task - tough cookies).
>
Is that max 64 64Mb tasks or max 64 tasks no matter what their size?
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