m_d said:
>
> Being a 16 bit 286 port you have to live within the limits of a 64K
> segmented architecture - I'm pretty sure the compiler supported
> small model (1 x 64k code segment + 1 x 64k data segment)
> and middle model (multiple 64k code segments + 1 64k data segment).
> It may or may not have supported large model (multiple code and
> data segments) but even if it did the support was probably pretty buggy.
>
> Don't even think about trying to build things like X unless you
> are extremely masochistic.
I've got Xenix 286 disks + manuals somewhere. I bought it second-hand
in ~1992 and got many hours of fun from it. Okay, months of fun.
The only thing lacking (back then) was the compiler which was a
separate product, at least I didn't have it. Looking back,
Minix 1.7 was a definite improvement if you were stuck with
286 machines like I was.
I'm writing this in Mozilla; the compilation took ~5 hours on an
Alphastation 500/500 (21164 with 8MB cache) with 512MB memory.
I still get nostalgic moments when I think about minix and xenix and
the time when I knew what every single program in /usr/bin actually was :-)
--
jht
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 13:57:00 GMT