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From: "Vikas N Kumar" <vikasnkumar@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Syscalls and ABIs -- i386
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:49:37 -0400
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On 7/16/06, Segin <segin2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing that I've been scratching at... Will there be any support for
> native Linux executables for ELKS running on i386 and higher? I am sure

Wouldn't that be dependent on the support of the instruction set and
segmentation handling of i386 or higher as opposed to the smaller
instruction set and segmentation handling of 8086 & i286 ? Do you have
the ABI document for an 8086 or a 286 ?


Vikas