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Article #28198Re: is Minix available for Atari 1040 ST?
From: Richard Sexton
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1987 03:36
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1987 03:36
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In article <1841@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> davidh@cad.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David S. Harrison) writes:
>In article <6080@prls.UUCP> gert@prls.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg) writes:
>>Now if we can get the manpower organized to put X-windows V11 on top of
>>Minix we will have a multi process, Unix compatible, windowing O.S. the
>>source of which is fully available ! Proposal to that effect follows.
>
>I am afraid such a proposal is not practical. The size of the executable
>server for X version 10 (on a VAX) is 110k and normally consumes about
>2MB of virtual space when running. A version 11 server is bound to be
>larger. Unless you are proposing a small subset, I am not sure
>we will ever see X on a machine with 64k processes (or 128k split I&D).
Not only that, but we've seen a *terrible* performence degradation
with under 'X', compared to just using native system calls.
NeWS anyone ?
>
> David Harrison
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!ddsw1!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: is Minix available for Atari 1040 ST? Message-ID: <1492@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 23:36:52 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1492 Posted: Thu Sep 10 23:36:52 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 16:36:44 EDT References: <168@wright.EDU> <6080@prls.UUCP> <1841@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 25 Keywords: Minix