Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Forwarded message Message-ID: <102@nikhefk.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 17:14:05 EST Article-I.D.: nikhefk.102 Posted: Tue Jan 6 17:14:05 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 02:57:53 EST References: <8701022135.AA07189@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <7472@utzoo.UUCP> <539@eneevax.UUCP> <10979@sun.uucp> Reply-To: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek) Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Lines: 20 In article <10979@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis) writes: =What Henry was probably referring to is the segment registers that the =80x86 family has. They offer a certain amount of code relocatability = =The biggest problem of porting MINIX would be porting the C compiler, =since compiler design breaks down into two camps, the parser and the =code generator. You would literally have to rewrite half of the compiler =to port it. =--Chuck McManis =uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com Some information for who want to start ..... The MINIX C compiler is the ACK (Amsterdam Compiler Kit). This is a portable C (and Pascal) compiler with backends for the most types of micros including 68K. An educatiomal licence for all systems is not expensive. (You get about 4 MB of source code). henk peek HIKHEF-K Amsterdam Holland henkp@nihefk.UUCP !seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp.UUCP