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

David Given
2004-05-27T09:32:19Z

On Thursday 27 May 2004 08:14, Andrey Romanenko wrote:
> Dan Olson wrote:
> >Just a thought, maybe if using the 286's features is something we want to
> >do, then why not look into Xenix and any other Unix of the era that runs
> >on the 286 and see if any ideas can be gotten from them. I'm sure we're
> >re-inventing the wheel to some extent.
>
> 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.
It's completely invisible and works very nicely.

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