From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rex Walburn Subject: Re: Help Wanted! Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:43:16 -0400 Message-ID: <792c60620509241243309037e8@mail.gmail.com> References: <1127539824.8686.33.camel@selene.hsol.net> <003301c5c0eb$68f1ece0$6502a8c0@dionysus> Reply-To: Rex Walburn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <003301c5c0eb$68f1ece0$6502a8c0@dionysus> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Hi Hans and Miguel, 3 months back i acquired a laptop with an 80C86 processor, and 640KB RAM, and tried running ELKS on it. Sometimes while booting I had some errors, and sometimes I did not. I do not remember the errors now, and instead I just used MS DOs (last resort !!) on the computer to see if it worked. I did not work on ELKS or on the computer after that. I am definitely interested in understanding ELKS and contributing something. I know C, C++ and am familiar with the x86 assembly instruction set. I also do know parallel processing, and once was wondering if ELKS can be made intelligent enough to connect few microcontrollers or 8086 type processors and do parallel processing. Of course a tcp/ip implementation would be required. -- Vikas "Rex" Walburn On 9/24/05, Hans wrote: > Hi Miguel, > > I am very happy that you will attempt to do this, I have given up on ELKS > since even a basic question like why is the mailing list archive link dead > has remained unanswered. > > However, before you start I think that you need a good set of obtainable > goals. The reason is simple, you need to get hackers/hobbyist interested in > the project so that they start contributing. The current target audience(?) > of old XT/PC type of hardware systems is no longer viable. I might be wrong > in this respect but I believe you should target embedded and home grown > hobby systems. This requires a fundamental change in the development tools > since BCC is limited to 8086/6809 systems only. > > David Given had an idea to use the ACK compiler for ELKS since ACK supports > a large range of 8 bits microcontrollers, however, I am afraid that by > adopting ACK we add a huge amount of work and complexity to the project. I > for one failed to build ELKS on my 64bits system and after a day of hacking > I gave up since the system was too complex for me (I am a hardware designer > and not a softie :-). > > Why don't you start with a survey, how many people are on this list, what do > they use ELKS for, what would they like to use ELKS for, who is in charge of > the website etc.. > > Regards, > Hans. > http://www.ht-lab.com/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Miguel Bolanos" > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:30 AM > Subject: Help Wanted! > > > > Greetings to all, > > > > As you may have noticed the project has been stuck for quite a while, i > > am looking forward to bring it back to life, but and would like to ask > > for some help, obviously coders are very welcome, but also people > > willing to help writing docs, and even people looking forward to help us > > create a new look for the project website. > > Looking forward to hear back from you. > > > > regards > > > > Miguel. > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >