From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 00:54:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA04696 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from jhome.DIALix.COM (root@jhome.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA04689 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.DIALix.oz.au (peter@localhost.DIALix.oz.au [127.0.0.1]) by jhome.DIALix.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12269; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:53:50 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <199602220853.QAA12269@jhome.DIALix.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: jhome.DIALix.COM: Host peter@localhost.DIALix.oz.au [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Marc van Kempen cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thot word processor In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:41:13 +0100." <199602212241.XAA29777@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:53:49 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> 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