Re: Future of ELKS

Alan Cox
2004-05-24T18:20:11Z

On Llu, 2004-05-24 at 10:29, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> OK, my only though was that even some 8bit hw has got the power to run an
> ELKS-like OS. Just think on Enterprise-128, I've described above (4Mb
> addressing page with "paging", though the base machine has got only
> 128K RAM by default, you can expand it).

Dave Braun did a Unix v7 clone (UZI) for banked Z80.

As far as compilers and segmentation and the like go, the Xenix 286
people supported multisegment binaries and swapping of them on 286
systems, but not 8086. They used protected mode (obviously),
segmentation and carefully arranged segment numbering so that you could
deduce the next segment of a block of code or data.

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