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From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
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Subject: Re: Forwarded message
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Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 17:14:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 17:14:05 1987
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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
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