Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Chris Starling
On 16 Sep 99, at 13:45, Louis P. Santillan wrote: > I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? Maybe he's thinking of the NEC V20 & V30? Unless I'm also horribly mistaken, they were souped up clones of the 8088. -chris

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Ken Yap
>I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? No, they are more like 8080s. 8088s are 16 bit machines, whereas the Z80 remains an 8 bit machine.

RE: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Matthew London
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > On Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:45 PM, Louis P. Santillan >[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > : I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? > : > You've been drinking *way* too much Dr Pepper. > > <8bitprocessors>

RE: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Michael McConnell
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > On Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:45 PM, Louis P. Santillan >[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > : I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? > : > You've been drinking *way* too much Dr Pepper. > > <8bitprocessors>

RE: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Greg Haerr
On Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:45 PM, Louis P. Santillan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? : You've been drinking *way* too much Dr Pepper. <8bitprocessors>: 8080 -> 8085 -> z80 <16bitprocessors>:

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Benjamin C. W. Sittler
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Louis P. Santillan wrote: > I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? Yes :) The Z80 is basically a souped-up 8080-clone. The 8088, on the other hand, is an incompatible successor to the 8080. Only the later has an active ELKS or Linux port t

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Louis P. Santillan
Oops...Z80 can deal with 8080A binaries... -- "It's not about the money...It's about the rules. Without rules, we might as well be tree climbers flinging crap at each other." - Red Foreman of That '70s S

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Louis P. Santillan
I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again??? -- "It's not about the money...It's about the rules. Without rules, we might as well be tree climbers flinging crap at each other."

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread mundy matthew
The 89 has even more(about 512), but it's divided between "unarchived" and "archived" memory. I haven't looked up the specs on how this works... ---Matt On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Louis P. Santillan wrote: > BTW, what kind of machine was used for the first Palm Pilot Port? Wasn't > i

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Louis P. Santillan
BTW, what kind of machine was used for the first Palm Pilot Port? Wasn't it a 256K machine? The 83+ are 128K machines and I think 92+ are 256K machines? Hmmm...I should look it up. -- "It's not about the money...It's about the rul

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread mundy matthew
Actually the Flash upgradeable RAM is in the 83+(Z80), and the 89 and the 92+(maybe the 92 also) which both(all) run m68k processors. ---Matt On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > Louis P. Santillan writes: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Any word on someone try

Re: ELKS installation manual

1999-09-16 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Patrice Kadionik writes: > > Hi all, > I intend to reuse very old pcs under linux and discovered ELKS :-) > > I'm looking for a howto on ELKS installation more detailled than the FAQ on the > ELKS site ? Has anybody pointers on it (tutorial, howto, manual...) ? > I am afraid there is no more d

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Louis P. Santillan writes: > > Hello everyone, > > Any word on someone trying to port ELKS to the new "upgradable" TI's, like > the 83 and 85/86 (not sure which)? That would be cool. They are called > the plus series I believe. > >From TIs web site it looks as though these machines have Z80

Linux on TI?

1999-09-16 Thread Louis P. Santillan
Hello everyone, Any word on someone trying to port ELKS to the new "upgradable" TI's, like the 83 and 85/86 (not sure which)? That would be cool. They are called the plus series I believe. Louis -- "It's not about the money...It'

ELKS installation manual

1999-09-16 Thread Patrice Kadionik
Hi all, I intend to reuse very old pcs under linux and discovered ELKS :-) I'm looking for a howto on ELKS installation more detailled than the FAQ on the ELKS site ? Has anybody pointers on it (tutorial, howto, manual...) ? Thank your for your help. -- Patrice Kadionik. F6KQH / F4CUQ --