Re: Future of ELKS

I'm in Void
2004-05-20T03:39:17Z

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.

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

/Benka
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