Re: Future of ELKS

[Miguel Bolanos <mike@linuxlabs.com>]

Greetings,

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 21:39, I'm in Void wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> onsdagen den 19 maj 2004 22.55 skrev Miguel Bolanos:
> > Good day to all,
> > 
> > The project seems to be finally awaking from a very long period of
> > inactivity, this can be reflected not only by the traffic on the mailing
> > list, but on the amount of people hanging around at the irc channel and
> > the quality of the discussions over there.
> > 
> > 
> > - A possibility of using gcc to create 8086 binaries might be a
> > possibility with a patch created by our irc friend boto. If the tests of
> > this are successful we will enable elkscmd to let the users decide if
> > they which to use gcc-8086 or our current bcc :)
> 
> This would be a major lift imho. Even if elks is 'never' even gona be a subset 
> of linux, and that is not a major aspect for me at least as the 8088 in 
> itself is cool to have good programs for, the idea to shift more to linux 
> side is appealing.
> I have also thought in the areas of netbsd kernels, to let it work in a subset 
> environment. All this might come if the gcc-8088 compiler seams stable for 
> it.

Sure, I'm pretty sure that this ELKS - gcc-8086 will call A LOT of
attention, and in the mean time yes other projects could follow us and
use gcc-8086 too.
Lets just support the project.. remember that the more testers and
success and failure reports that we get, the best results that we get
obviously the best results that we will get.

best wishes

Mike

> 
> 
> > 
> > Anyways thats all for now. Hope to hear back from all.
> > best wishes
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> /Benka