Re: Apple ][ Unix Revisited

1999-07-29 Thread Eberhard Knechtel
There is also a unix-like port to C64.. I couldnt believe.. http://www.heilbronn.netsurf.de/~dallmann/lunix/lunix.html Eberhard

Re: Apple ][ Unix Revisited

1999-07-29 Thread Chris Starling
> We were discussing a little while ago the idea of *nix on an Apple ][ > class machine. Well, it seems someone already did it. I don't remember > where I found it, the the filename is "apple2xinu.tar.gz". What is it? > You guessed it -- Xinu for the Apple 2. There was also a package that basi

RE: Turbo C

1999-07-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: I don't think ELKS has floating point support yet, Alistair would be the best : person to ask this question to, I think. : ELKS doesn't yet support floating point. The bcc compiler libraries have support for 32 bit floating point though. All ELKS float support will have to come from bc

Re: Turbo C

1999-07-29 Thread Perry Harrington
> > Perry, > > Cool! Thanks for the heads-up on that one. Excellent 16-bit compiler. > > I used Turbo C several years doing firmware development for an embedded > 80c186 processor. > > We did not use DOS nor BIOS; we had the Paradigm "locate" program and > burned the code into eprom. Wrote

RE: Apple ][ Unix Revisited

1999-07-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: The Problem is that the Tarball has no filename information in it, so : all the contents just spit put into one large file that I can't use. : Sounds like something a typical Apple ][ hacker would do... ;-) Tell me where it is, I'd like to see this. gh

Apple ][ Unix Revisited

1999-07-29 Thread legacy 'Xunker'
Hi all, I was just hopping around old FTP sites, getting some disk images for my Apple //c, and I ran across a peculiar package. We were discussing a little while ago the idea of *nix on an Apple ][ class machine. Well, it seems someone already did it. I don't remember where I found it, the the

RE: minicom under ELKS?

1999-07-29 Thread Greg Haerr
On Thursday, July 29, 1999 12:47 PM, Matt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : I have an old 286 that's just collecting dust, but if I could use ELKS and : minicom then I'd have a nice little terminal. Can ELKS run minicom? It : says it has serial IO support. : : Matt : What's minicom?

minicom under ELKS?

1999-07-29 Thread Matt
I have an old 286 that's just collecting dust, but if I could use ELKS and minicom then I'd have a nice little terminal. Can ELKS run minicom? It says it has serial IO support. Matt

RE: Turbo C

1999-07-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: The idea would be to get a real mode compiler that can do the things we : want, but it would need a back end linker to produce ELKS executables. : Not if we added back MSDOS binary support in the kernel. This would be fairly simple to add. We wouldn't have MSDOS emulation, just the b

RE: Turbo C

1999-07-29 Thread Greg Haerr
On Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:16 AM, David Murn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Perry Harrington wrote: : : > I brought up a thread a long time ago on this, Borland wasn't interested : > then, but they just released Turbo C for free. : : Source, or just free binaries? If

Re: Turbo C

1999-07-29 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Perry Harrington wrote: > I brought up a thread a long time ago on this, Borland wasn't interested > then, but they just released Turbo C for free. Source, or just free binaries? If it's only binaries it's not much use to us. > This means we can use it for compiling in the

Turbo C

1999-07-29 Thread Perry Harrington
I brought up a thread a long time ago on this, Borland wasn't interested then, but they just released Turbo C for free. This means we can use it for compiling in the ELKS project. The idea would be to get a real mode compiler that can do the things we want, but it would need a back end linker to