From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Re: Help Wanted! Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:13:51 +0100 Message-ID: <200509272113.54472.dg@cowlark.com> References: <1127539824.8686.33.camel@selene.hsol.net> <00c201c5c393$36d31860$6402a8c0@dionysus> <1a19a18005092712103c1b1c0c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2912975.X9KGQtAK01"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1a19a18005092712103c1b1c0c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org --nextPart2912975.X9KGQtAK01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 27 September 2005 20:10, Isaque Galdino wrote: > Well guys, I appreciate your efforts to bring elks back to life. > I tried once to use elks in my hp200lx but with no luck at all. > hp200lx still has a lot of users, if you could boot a hp200lx with > elks I guess you would have a lot of guys trying elks for sure. Have you tried ELKS' arch-rival, Minix? I'm not sure if Minix 2 will run on= =20 the i86, but Minix 1.5 certainly does, and works reasonably well. The big trouble with ELKS is that it only really runs on i86 machines, and= =20 these are a right pain to deal with --- it's not just that they're really=20 old, decrepit machines which cost more in electricity to run than a pocket= =20 calculator a thousand times more powerful does today, it's that no two are= =20 the same. Standards were pretty fuzzy in those days, and there's a huge=20 variety of different kinds of hardware that needs supporting. Actually maki= ng=20 ELKS work reliably would be a rather large undertaking just for test=20 purposes... (DOS gets away with it because, basically, DOS is crap. It relies on the BI= OS=20 to do a lot of the work, which ELKS can't really do. Minix manages a bit=20 better but it's a bit picky on the kinds of hardware it'll support for just= =20 this reason.) Can ELKS be ported to *other* architectures that i86? Would it be feasible = to=20 use it on a modern, flat architecture like ARM? =2D-=20 +- David Given --McQ-+ "Hydrogen fusion, the sun makes shine | dg@cowlark.com | Vascular pressure makes the ivy twine. | (dg@tao-group.com) | Because of Rayleigh, the sky's so blue. +- www.cowlark.com --+ Hormonal fixation is why I love you." --- Zarf --nextPart2912975.X9KGQtAK01 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDOagCf9E0noFvlzgRArJlAJwOYhyJjZ2SZ9kbSSLXuaVM0+McjwCePdGi vkt9S6FokoV3i841GL2Fbe0= =Zk5g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2912975.X9KGQtAK01--