Some thoughts on MiNT

["Elias M}rtensson (proxxi)" <elias@proxxi.uf.se>]

I have some thoughts and questions on MiNT and its problems...

Are there any plans to replace the losing memory manager in MiNT with a 
decent one? I mean, why implementing kluges like the shared text stuff 
that requres -mbaserel? More and more atari systems have a 68030. Why not 
use it? Doing so wold solve a lot of problems, including: the absence of 
a virtual memory manager, fragmented memory, kludgy shared text (the only 
thing that would be needed is a prgflag that is a gurantee that the text 
segment is never modified).

I have the impression that MiNT users have learned to live with these
problems instead of attempting to do something about it. Please don't 
accuse me of complaning without doing anyting. I don't know enough about 
memory managers to be able to do it. Is anybody working on this?

Another really nice thing would be shared libraries. Most MiNT 
configurations have only 4 megs of memory (including my own). If I 
install everything I want to run (MinixFS, MiNT-NET, vcons, MiNTOS, Bash, 
etc...) I have only about 700KB left! That's not even enough for Emacs!

Is anybody working on a port of X-Windows for MiNT? This is one of the 
lings I would really love to see on my atari. I've thought about trying 
the new Linux port but I'd rather use MiNT.

What's your comments on this?

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