[TUHS] Borland's C++ BuilderX, Personal Edition

Peter Jeremy PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Fri Jul 22 17:37:04 AEST 2005


On Sat, 2005-Jul-09 09:41:36 -0600, James Falknor wrote:
>   My ultimate goal is to bring Unix Version7 into the 21st century. 

That's already been done: Look at 2.11BSD.

Note that getting V7 (or 2BSD) running on a 286 is non-trivial.
Whilst both the PDP-11 and 286 are both 16-bit machines supporting VM,
the 286 MMU is extremely primitive compared to the PDP-11.  Your
biggest problem will be that the 286 does not support holes in the
address space - which means your data segment needs to cover both the
real data as well as the stack area and you lose brk limit checking.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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