From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: Help Wanted! Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:38:26 +0100 Message-ID: <00c201c5c393$36d31860$6402a8c0@dionysus> References: <1127539824.8686.33.camel@selene.hsol.net> <003301c5c0eb$68f1ece0$6502a8c0@dionysus> <792c60620509241243309037e8@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: "Hans" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="original" To: Rex Walburn , linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Hi Rex, Thanks for that, perhaps I am wrong, perhaps old hardware is the only thing people are using ELKS for. Any others, Chrysostomos? you seem to be doing some development, David, Harry? Unfortunately the mailing archive is still giving me a 404 so my understanding of the ELKS "world" is just 6 people, surely there must be more? Regards, Hans. www.ht-lab.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rex Walburn" To: Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Help Wanted! > 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 >