From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Help Wanted! Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20050927114707.X61731@agora.rdrop.com> References: <1127539824.8686.33.camel@selene.hsol.net> <003301c5c0eb$68f1ece0$6502a8c0@dionysus> <792c60620509241243309037e8@mail.gmail.com> <00c201c5c393$36d31860$6402a8c0@dionysus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <00c201c5c393$36d31860$6402a8c0@dionysus> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Well, I've been on the mailing list since... the '90s some time I guess. My origional thinking is that it'd be cool to have a Linux like system on an XT or 286, I have a collection of old systems and it'd be neat to use ELKS on them. I finally was able to get a DOS packet driver and a program called Minuet working on my XT and NCSA telnet/ftp on my 286, both using 3Com network cards, so I hate to say but ELKS would really need that functionality to be useful to me on the old machines. Building an 8088 or 8086 system would be neat to do too but at this point I don't really think I'll be doing that. Dan On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Hans wrote: > 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 >> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >