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From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym...
Subject: 386 maximum segment size of 16Mb
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 03:33:51 -0500

> 
> changing SEGMAPSIZE works fine.
> It incurs overhead allocated Segment structures
> so 16 seemed reasonable for a terminal. We really
> dont use PC's to compile.
> 
> 

Well, wouldn't you know. I was going to post all this yesterday, and 
as we get up earlier in the morning this side of the pond, I would 
have got there first. I fixed SEGMAPSIZE to 32, so must be half a 
woos (?sp).

What you have to watch is the linker! It gets to 14 meg doing 
9pcdisk; it gets to 20mb doing ghostscript, even without any useful 
printer drivers added in (which was what I was doing). Anyone else 
tried compiling in, say, HP deskjet support?