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

Mario Premke
2004-05-26T06:20:51Z

> Swapping is slower, because you've got to read and write more memory, but
> given the maximum size of a segment on ELKS is 64kB and each
> process can have
> a maximum of two segments, you end up having to read a maximum of
> 128kB per
> process. Which is not a lot. If you can swap to a ramdisk of some

What about supporting 286 protected mode in a manner that more than one
text+data segment per program are possible - still far-pointers were to be
implmented, but would segment switching not be easier with HW-protection (in
comparison to 8086)? I am not familiar with compiler programming, so I
have no idea of how much work it would be.
The last time I looked into the elks sources there was code for initializing
286 protected mode - don't know if it works.

Mario