RE: hi all..

["Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>]

Hi Robert.

 >> I am working in a embedded development company. My boss
 >> asked me about porting of Linux to 386 machine with the
 >> features he wants. Can u help with the details.

 >> Sure...
 >> 
 >>  1. Pick a Linux distribution at random.

 > Since someone else also mentioned *BSD then may I
 > suggest: Minix? http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
 >
 > Ran me first internet accessible web server on an old
 > 386/20mhz with 2meg of ram & a 20 meg drive. Still
 > have it. Still runs.

That's certainly an option providing one can satisfy the
Minix licence.

 > I also fool around with ELKS on me ole' Tandy 1000A.
 > It runs, more or less, although I do not yet have it
 > working on the hard drive.

I used to have one, but it went belly up just before I
first came across ELKS so I never had a chance to try it
out on that machine.

 > Oh. One more thing -

 >> ..., nothing as ugly as a frown.

 > - Really? Have you seen <insert name of some other
 > Elks developer here>'s source code lately?
 >
 > ( Sorry. I tried SO hard not to. Just couldn't help
 > myself. )

I've seen some pretty ugly source code, including some I've
written myself at times, but I still feel the above claim
of mine is correct.

Best wishes from Riley.
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