From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mario Premke" Subject: AW: [Fwd: Re: EDE - Personal Suggestions and Ideas] Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:20:51 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200405251810.10165.dg@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200405251810.10165.dg@cowlark.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Given , linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > 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