Re: EDE Elk´s

Javier Sedano
2006-04-28T10:13:43Z

David Given wrote:
>
> Have you tried Minix 2? It will run quite happily on an 8086 with 640kB
> of RAM, although it does tend to run out of memory if you do too much
> stuff. It might be able to talk to the Toshiba's EMS system for swap
> space, though.

Minix 2.0.2 as sooner will run on 8086/640k, even with TCP/IP. However
it uses lots of memory for the kernel and basic programs (getty, sh,...)
so it lets only a couple of 64k spaces for user programs.

In 2.0.3 (?) they included a swap mechanism... but it used even more
meory, getting it unusable at all for 640k computers.

They said it will be a target for future releases, but it seems Minix3
is a higher prioirity now.

> It'll give you a Unix-alike that while being rather
> slower than ELKS, is considerably more mature. (Dual-booting Minix and
> ELKS might be rather useful if you want to do ELKS development. It ought
> to be possible to cross-compile ELKS from Minix.) It's also got a big
> library of software designed to run in a split 64/64 address space,
> which means it should be easy to port to ELKS.
>

In fact, many of the user programs we have in elks are proted from
minix by elks developers.

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