Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!cwjcc!dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu From: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Multitasking on the ST Message-ID: <469@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Date: 14 Aug 89 04:29:46 GMT References: <89081310545051@masnet.uucp> Sender: news@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) Organization: Case Western Reserve University Lines: 13 In-reply-to: david.megginson@canremote.uucp (DAVID MEGGINSON) In article <89081310545051@masnet.uucp>, david.megginson@canremote (DAVID MEGGINSON) writes: >From what I've heard, Minix is very restrictive with memory. Each >program is allowed a maximum of 64k, and there is not VM paging. A cute >toy, but useless for anything but learning. >--- The restriction on memory is only on the Ibm-Pc version of minix. In ST-minix there is no such restriction. Its true that there is no virtual memory. IMHO it is a little bit more than a cute toy. -- bang: {any internet host}!dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu GEnie: J.Bammi