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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3031 comp.os.lynx:467 comp.os.os2:2985 comp.os.386bsd.questions:10476 comp.os.os2.programmer:13795 comp.os.lynx:468 comp.os.mach:3868 comp.os.minix:23795 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!ulowell!ulowell.uml.edu!jrichard From: jrichard@charon.uml.edu (John Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.os2,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!! Date: 27 May 1994 21:00:15 GMT Organization: University of Massachussets - Lowell Lines: 37 Message-ID: <JRICHARD.94May27170016@charon.uml.edu> References: <1994May27.141723.13104@eplrx7.es.duPont.com> <n9044144.770068471@honeydew> NNTP-Posting-Host: charon.uml.edu In-reply-to: n9044144@honeydew.cc.wwu.edu's message of 27 May 94 19:54:31 GMT I'm not certain about core areas 1+2... >3 - TCPIP and Socket support. check. >end of core requirements. >######################### >Would be nice if: most these things exist... etc... about 1 & 2: |1 - Memory map access to isa / eisa bus, | no device drivers needed. | eg. | int i, *ptr = 0x00C00000; | | read would be i = *ptr; | write would be *ptr = i; I'm pretty sure what you want here is mmap(), maybe with MAP_FIXED... |2 - Flat memory, ability to malloc available memory | in system without having to do some sort of | translation. I don't understand this one... Linux has a "flat" memory architecture, but I don't know of any malloc that doesn't have to do /any/ translations... I'm sure one exists though. :) John Richardson jrichard@cs.uml.edu