R: Future of ELKS

R: Future of ELKS

[BODRATO Stefano]

>> 	7) A graphical environment, with a window manager and applications (at 
>> least, terminal). Again, it may be dificult to be done with 640k. 
>> Compliance with X would be great, but may be impossible ;-)

Maybe starting with the port some simple graphics library is easier.
What about a subset of the X primitives ?  Supporting a single non-streatchable window (full screen) and fake networking shouldn't cost much memory...


>Well your comments are VERY welcome, and we sure appreciate the fact of
>taking some time to provide this feedback.. this is will be of great use
>for the team... hopefully we will keep getting feedback from you, and
>meet on irc :)

I'd personally love a DDK to extend the support to other devices such as PCMCIA cards.
Plus, as already requested by someone else, generic BIOS level drivers could be helpful... what about a wrapper/shim for the old MS-DOS device drivers ?

Re: R: Future of ELKS

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:23:47AM +0200, BODRATO Stefano wrote:
> >> 	7) A graphical environment, with a window manager and applications (at 
> >> least, terminal). Again, it may be dificult to be done with 640k. 
> >> Compliance with X would be great, but may be impossible ;-)
> 
> Maybe starting with the port some simple graphics library is easier.  What
> about a subset of the X primitives ?  Supporting a single non-streatchable
> window (full screen) and fake networking shouldn't cost much memory...

Older versions of microwindow/nano-x worked on elks if someone has time they
could give it a test.

Paul