Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:53:49 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thot word processor Message-ID: <199602220853.QAA12269@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:41:13 %2B0100." <199602212241.XAA29777@nietzsche.bowtie.nl>
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>> chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) writes: >> >> >On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Marc van Kempen wrote: > >[ stuff deleted ] > >> BTW: -current's Linux emulator now does QMAGIC just fine, as well as ZMAGIC. >> >> QMAGIC is ***much*** preferred, as it allows proper shared libraries. >> If you use ZMAGIC libraries, you do not share any code between processes >> and each copy of the program has a seperate copy in memory. Needless to say >, >> you run out of memory very quickly with ZMAGIC. >> >> I use the a.out libraries from the slackware 3.0 distribution. I dont know >> if there are newer versions out now. > >How difficult is it to hack the -current emulator in 2.1-RELEASE? > >Regards, >Marc. I'm afraid it's becoming more difficult by the day. The one in -current is taking advantage of the VM system speedups, and there would be some reworking needed to get the fixes retrofitted. Cheers, -Peter
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