home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
ftp.cs.arizona.edu
/
ftp.cs.arizona.edu.tar
/
ftp.cs.arizona.edu
/
icon
/
newsgrp
/
group93b.txt
/
000022_icon-group-sender _Sun Apr 25 02:02:59 1993.msg
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
1993-06-16
|
1KB
Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 25 Apr 1993 18:23:03 MST
Date: 25 Apr 93 02:02:59 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!quads!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Organization: University of Chicago
Subject: DOS (was Re: Lack of robustness)
Message-Id: <1993Apr25.020259.18787@midway.uchicago.edu>
References: <9304230936.AA23022@univ-caen.fr>, <BRUCE.93Apr24184130@utafll.utafll.uta.edu>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
bruce@utafll.uta.edu (Bruce Samuelson) writes:
>Another possible reason Icon is not more popular is lack of
>robustness in some circumstances.
>
>...running DOS 5.0....
Hint: Icon really prefers not to run in the small address space
of an 8086 processor. DOS was, in turn, never meant to run pro-
grams that bite off large amounts of working memory, and do their
own reallocation, extension, and memory management.
Under UNIX, Icon is quite robust. I have run into only a handful
of problems with it in the six or so years that I've been using
it under SunOS and Xenix.
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer