Re: NanoX version 0.3 released (Pretty much off-topic)

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Olson
> I (Erik Smit, AKA Diversia)'m new to this list. > > I don't think using a bios file would be very useable. AFAIK a BIOS is > system-specific and maybe in the time of CP/M al C128 where the same but > that doesn't work today. I don't think it would be a pretty sight using a > Amstrad 286 bios in

Re: ELKS in AppleII+

1999-05-14 Thread Luciano José Alves
Jakob, >Jakob Eriksson wrote: > > I don't understand the question. > Do you mean if there is AppleII+ support in ELKS? Sorry, my english is very bad. My question is: Already have ELKS for these plataforms: Intel 8088 (xt & compatibles), Zilog z80 (msx,

Re: NanoX version 0.3 released

1999-05-14 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ansel wrote: > >easily handle. Personally I'm of the opinion that using the BIOS for > >everything possible is a great shortcut. Lots of device drivers talk to > Shouldn't ELKS ultimately be able to run on systems without a BIOS? If you write the code... :-) Jakob

RE: NanoX version 0.3 released

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Haerr
It's all about finding time to re-write code that's already written in the bios, and space tradeoffs in the 64k codeseg limit for the kernel... Not to mention portability issues. On Wednesday, May 12, 1999 7:27 AM, Ansel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > >easily handle. Personally I'm of the op

Re: Elks on Quaderno

1999-05-14 Thread Diversia
-- > Van: Dario Papoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: Linux-8086 (Posta elettronica) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Onderwerp: Elks on Quaderno > Datum: zaterdag 8 mei 1999 14:03 > > Hi, > anyone got elks running on Olivetti Quaderno (V30) booting directly from > ROM-DOS, without having the disk dr