Re: EDE Elk´s

[Jody <jbruchon@nc.rr.com>]

Forrest England wrote:
> Very sorry to hear about RHW.
> I think putting some kind of tribute on the website is a good idea.

Seconded.

> I wouldn't mind helping out with the website if need be.

Neither would I, but my message about me volunteering to take over the 
whole website maintenance task appears to have fallen on deaf inboxes. 
I have the spare time to maintain it all if I was allowed to do so.

> I'm sure ELKS isn't anyone's first priority, but I think it does have
> viable applications in embedded systems
> and learning purposes as the website says, and for fun.  These toshibas
> are pretty good computers, for their
> time.  Where else are you going to find a laptop who's battery lasts for
> up to eight hours?  I've been having
> some fun with mine writing 8086 code that it boots directly into off a
> disk.  There was a good series of articles
> on this in Linux Gazette.  It seems like ELKS will take some work to
> really get useable.  Too bad, I can't stand DOS, though if I am going to
> for anything, it would be nice to get it going with all the toshiba
> drivers and stuff.

The main problem I have right now is that the "bootkit" by Pascal 
Bellard that was used in EDE was not made available in source code form.

As many XT machines as I've owned with 20-60 MB hard disks, it would be 
nice to have a boot loader for hard disks that wasn't binary-only.

Jody