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- From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
- Subject: Re: Minix/386: why are 16-bit binaries not allowed?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.161653.7475@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Keywords: Minix 386
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- Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:16:53 GMT
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- rwmj@st-andrews.ac.uk (Richard William Martin Jones) writes:
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- >Hi.
-
- >As it stands, you don't appear to be able to run 16-bit binaries under
- >Bruce's 32-bit kernel. Why is this?
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- I think the main reason is that the data sizes are different. The
- kernel and the servers would have to use different message formats
- depending on wether they communicate with a 16-bit or a 32-bit program.
- This probably means a lot of little changes everywhere.
-
- Peter
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