[...]
>       Low area for BIOS/system        64K
>       Kernel                          128K
>       Buffers                         64K
        ^^^^^^^                         ^^^
>       init                            32+K
>       login * 2                       32+K *2
>       sh                              ~64K
>
>       TOTAL                           416K
[...]

Shouldn't the kernel be using unused main memory for buffers rather than 
allocating a fixed size block? This would (a) be more efficient as the kernel 
wouldn't be wasting memory, and (b) give more memory for applications. I 
wouldn't have thought it would be any harder to code as you're having to do 
strange segmentation stuff to access it already.


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