21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
7:35 p.m.
From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
On 1/5/06, Eric J Korpela <korpela at
ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote:
I am certain that Xenix/286 doesn't page. It does swap, much like early
PDP-11 Unix kernels. But you will need enough RAM to load the kernel plus
your largest process.
I once ported GNU Emacs to the beast. In the largest configuration I
had access to, there was enough memory to load it, and compose a document
about 20 bytes long.
Vince
Virtual memory in 286 mode is one advantage OS/2
might have over any
of the 286 unixes. I'm not sure if Xenix supported it.
I /think/ it did. I used to run a Xenix/286 box in my 1st job, and
installed a few as well, and I am reaonably sure I used to have to
configure swap on them. My office machine was an IBM PC-AT, the 6MHz
version, with 512K RAM, and not only did Xenix run fine but I had
enough RAM to run a 2nd terminal as well.