Re: AW: [Fwd: Re: EDE - Personal Suggestions and Ideas]

Gábor Lénárt
2004-05-27T10:19:08Z

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:32:19AM +0100, David Given wrote:
> > You are talking about copyrighted software with closed sources. The
> > total maximum we can found is a binary disribution.
>
> You could look at Minix instead; it's open source and handles 286 protected
> mode. It uses the 286's MMU to put segments anywhere in memory while keeping
> binary compatibility with the 8086; basically, you just run Minix on the 286
> and you can use up to 16MB of RAM where on the 8086 you can use up to 640kB.

Or more, since you have got virtual memory, I mean you may have segments
which are not exists in the physical RAM. So with hw supported 'swapping'
(but on segment basis not on page like in case of 386 it can be done)
you can use even memory memory.

- Gábor (larta'H)
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