Re: Help Wanted!

[Rex Walburn <walburn@gmail.com>]

Hi Hans and Miguel,
3 months back i acquired a laptop with an 80C86 processor, and 640KB
RAM, and tried running ELKS on it. Sometimes while booting I had some
errors, and sometimes I did not. I do  not remember the errors now,
and instead I just used MS DOs (last resort !!) on the computer to see
if it worked.  I did not work on ELKS or on the computer after that.
I am definitely interested in understanding ELKS and contributing something.
I know C, C++ and am familiar with the x86 assembly instruction set. 
I also do know parallel processing, and once was wondering if ELKS can
be made intelligent enough to connect few microcontrollers or 8086
type processors and do parallel processing.  Of course a tcp/ip
implementation would be required.

--
Vikas "Rex" Walburn

On 9/24/05, Hans <hans64@ht-lab.com> wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
>
> I am very happy that you will attempt to do this, I have given up on ELKS
> since even a basic question like why is the mailing list archive link dead
> has remained unanswered.
>
> However, before you start  I think that you need a good set of obtainable
> goals. The reason is simple, you need to get hackers/hobbyist interested in
> the project so that they start contributing. The current target audience(?)
> of old XT/PC type of hardware systems is no longer viable. I might be wrong
> in this respect but I believe you should target embedded and home grown
> hobby systems.  This requires a fundamental change in the development tools
> since BCC is limited to 8086/6809 systems only.
>
> David Given had an idea to use the ACK compiler for ELKS since ACK supports
> a large range of 8 bits microcontrollers, however, I am afraid that by
> adopting ACK we add a huge amount of work and complexity to the project. I
> for one failed to build ELKS on my 64bits system and after a day of hacking
> I gave up since the system was too complex for me (I am a hardware designer
> and not a softie :-).
>
> Why don't you start with a survey, how many people are on this list, what do
> they use ELKS for, what would they like to use ELKS for, who is in charge of
> the website etc..
>
> Regards,
> Hans.
> http://www.ht-lab.com/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miguel Bolanos" <mike@hsol.net>
> To: <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:30 AM
> Subject: Help Wanted!
>
>
> > Greetings to all,
> >
> > As you may have noticed the project has been stuck for quite a while, i
> > am looking forward to bring it back to life, but and would like to ask
> > for some help, obviously coders are very welcome, but also people
> > willing to help writing docs, and even people looking forward to help us
> > create a new look for the project website.
> > Looking forward to hear back from you.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Miguel.
> >
> >
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