Re: Help Wanted!

["Hans" <hans64@ht-lab.com>]

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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