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- From: hlu@fili.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS: don't laugh now but...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.044152.10619@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 04:41:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.034005.15077@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: hlu@fili (H.J. Lu)
- Organization: Washington State University
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- In article <1992Aug26.034005.15077@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
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- |> That will bring SLS to 21 disks, but I want to add Interviews
- |> though not till after the next GCC/X11 release that uses
- |> jump tables and 3GB procs. Thus SLS will probably settle out at
- |> 26 or so disks for a total system. That's the bad news. The good
- |> news is that it will allow DTP with TeX, xdvi, Ghostscript and Idraw.
- |> And that should be upgradable with just shared libs and a kernel.
- |> Hopefully, this (and source) will form a core for a CDROM,
- |> although it is not clear that everyone will want to spend the
- |> ~$400.00 (??) or so buy a player and the CD. Maybe though.
- |>
- |> What is still missing is a simple database package with a commandline
- |> user interface ala DB3. Any suggestions.
- |>
- |> Anyways, in the mean time, I am waiting for the next GCC so that I can
- |> start building the next (and, with jump tables, hopefully last) system.
- |> Then efforts can be concentrated upon system shakedown.
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- We have taken a look at the jump table for X11R5. We found out it is
- very hard to build a jump table for X11R5 without totally rearranging
- the files in mit/lib/Xaw and mit/lib/Xt. What we are going to do is
- build a classical shared lib for X11 with the jump table version of
- libc.a and libm.a. That means you can update libc without worring
- about X11R5.
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- The next release of shared lib will start at 0x60000000 (1.5GM) and
- we have plenty of spaces for InterView
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- H.J.
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