From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: Re: EDE =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Elk=B4s?= Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:13:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4451EAD7.90006@agora-2000.com> References: <4450ce17.4181.0@cyberus.ca> <20060427205457.4848290D77@kelly.nerdshack.com> <792c60620604271827u656864f1lc0593f4d58acd3a5@mail.gmail.com> <4451E191.8080209@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4451E191.8080209@cowlark.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: David Given Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org David Given wrote: >=20 > Have you tried Minix 2? It will run quite happily on an 8086 with 640= kB > of RAM, although it does tend to run out of memory if you do too much > stuff. It might be able to talk to the Toshiba's EMS system for swap > space, though. Minix 2.0.2 as sooner will run on 8086/640k, even with TCP/IP. However= =20 it uses lots of memory for the kernel and basic programs (getty, sh,...= )=20 so it lets only a couple of 64k spaces for user programs. In 2.0.3 (?) they included a swap mechanism... but it used even more=20 meory, getting it unusable at all for 640k computers. They said it will be a target for future releases, but it seems Minix3= =20 is a higher prioirity now. > It'll give you a Unix-alike that while being rather > slower than ELKS, is considerably more mature. (Dual-booting Minix an= d > ELKS might be rather useful if you want to do ELKS development. It ou= ght > to be possible to cross-compile ELKS from Minix.) It's also got a big > library of software designed to run in a split 64/64 address space, > which means it should be easy to port to ELKS. >=20 In fact, many of the user programs we have in elks are proted from=20 minix by elks developers. --=20 Javier Sedano Jarillo: javier.sedano@agora-2000.com Agora Systems S.A. C/Velazquez, 46, 6=BA derecha; E-28001 Madrid (Spain) Tel.: +34 676 48 29 55; Fax.: +34 91 577 76 72 -------- Who on hell is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard disk? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html