From: hlu@fili.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: SLS: don't laugh now but... Date: 26 Aug 1992 04:41:52 GMT
In article <1992Aug26.034005.15077@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
|> That will bring SLS to 21 disks, but I want to add Interviews
|> though not till after the next GCC/X11 release that uses
|> jump tables and 3GB procs. Thus SLS will probably settle out at
|> 26 or so disks for a total system. That's the bad news. The good
|> news is that it will allow DTP with TeX, xdvi, Ghostscript and Idraw.
|> And that should be upgradable with just shared libs and a kernel.
|> Hopefully, this (and source) will form a core for a CDROM,
|> although it is not clear that everyone will want to spend the
|> ~$400.00 (??) or so buy a player and the CD. Maybe though.
|>
|> What is still missing is a simple database package with a commandline
|> user interface ala DB3. Any suggestions.
|>
|> Anyways, in the mean time, I am waiting for the next GCC so that I can
|> start building the next (and, with jump tables, hopefully last) system.
|> Then efforts can be concentrated upon system shakedown.
We have taken a look at the jump table for X11R5. We found out it is
very hard to build a jump table for X11R5 without totally rearranging
the files in mit/lib/Xaw and mit/lib/Xt. What we are going to do is
build a classical shared lib for X11 with the jump table version of
libc.a and libm.a. That means you can update libc without worring
about X11R5.
The next release of shared lib will start at 0x60000000 (1.5GM) and
we have plenty of spaces for InterView
H.J.