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I am at the moment looking into porting the PX-XINU sources to the
80286 running in protected mode, with the intention of making use
of the 286's hardware task management and memory protection features.

A major problem which I forsee is in compiling the XINU C sources, as
I do not have a C compiler available for the 80286.  (The main problem
is that existing C compilers generate code which will run fine in real mode
but which does not handle the 286's memory management features - resulting
in problems with segment references.)

(I have thought of tricks such as modifying the objects and executables
generated by existing DOS C compilers, such as Turbo C, but I would like
to try and find a cleaner method.)

I was wandering if anybody else had looked into the idea of porting XINU
to the 80286, and if so, if they have any suggestions on how I could get
around the problem of compiling the C sources.  (I do not have a problem
of getting into protected mode as such, as I have the beginnings of a 
protected mode bios under development.)

Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thanks.

Cheers, Geoff.

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