there's still life in the Z80

1999-09-20 Thread Ken Yap
Seen on /. Zilog announces the eZ80. http://www.zilog.com/ez80/ Mentions a TCP/IP stack too.

RE: Two Questions: minix_add_entry & man

1999-09-20 Thread Greg Haerr
: I have frequently experienced very bizare behavoir whenever the commandline : for a program gets very long, including hung processes, a hung system, and : some really messy crashes. I think this is the problem you are having with : wildcards. Somewhere the length of the commandline is not being

Re: ELKS on Psion?

1999-09-20 Thread Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
Simon Wood wrote: > > Yes the start of a port has been done but I kind of got distracted by > various other toys (new distro's, TV card, tiling Kitchen...) > > A (not quite up to date) version of the port can be found at: > http://www.mungewell.ndirect.co.uk/linux/index.htm > > I'll

Re: Two Questions: minix_add_entry & man

1999-09-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Alistair Riddoch writes: > > Phil Kos writes: > > > > Chris Starling wrote: > > > And the nifty thing is that I always get the message upon creating the > > > 63rd file and any file thereafter. > > > > Sounds like this message happens when the function goes from the first > > to the second allo

RE: ELKS on Psion?

1999-09-20 Thread Simon Wood
Yes the start of a port has been done but I kind of got distracted by various other toys (new distro's, TV card, tiling Kitchen...) A (not quite up to date) version of the port can be found at: http://www.mungewell.ndirect.co.uk/linux/index.htm I'll try and get motivated enough to po

Re: Two Questions: minix_add_entry & man

1999-09-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Jacek Lipkowski writes: > > On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chris Starling wrote: > > > fsck seems to have no effect (does it really do anything yet?) Anyone > > else ever had this problem? How do you make it go away? > > it doesn't seem to do anything, i've tried this on several block devices > (flop

Re: Two Questions: minix_add_entry & man

1999-09-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Chris Starling writes: > > In a perhaps unrelated problem, I've experienced weirdness when using > the * wildcard when copying a large number of files. The cp process will > freeze completely, although the machine is fine. I can kill the shell out > from under it, but I can't kill -9 the cp

Re: Two Questions: minix_add_entry & man

1999-09-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Chris Starling writes: > > > Boy I've had the last 4 posts on the list now, I'll give you guys one > guess as to what I did today... :) > Already replied to the other issue.. > > Question #2 > > I compiled Robert de Bath's man program in the sys_utils directory, but > I can't get it to

Re: Two Questions: minix_add_entry & man

1999-09-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Phil Kos writes: > > Chris Starling wrote: > > And the nifty thing is that I always get the message upon creating the > > 63rd file and any file thereafter. > > Sounds like this message happens when the function goes from the first > to the second allocation unit of the directory. (62 files plus

Re: Compiling 0.0.79 -- minor problem

1999-09-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Chris Starling writes: > > > Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just thought I'd mention that in > order to get 0.0.79 to compile, I had to make two minor changes to > arch/i86/Makefile. Below is a diff of the old and new: > > 29c29 > < -0 -nostdinc -Iinclude -S -o $*.s $< > -

ELKS on Psion?

1999-09-20 Thread Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
I saw this note on the ELKS page: "[1999 07 21] ELKS booted on psion 3A." Is a Psion release expected? This looks really interesting, and I would very much like to see Linux on my 3c. Regards, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes 386 World: http://come.to/386 Psion 3a/c/mx/Siena: http://www.crosswinds.n

Re: Linux on TI?

1999-09-20 Thread Markus Leypold
Just found this fragment. I'd like to mention, that the first Versions of UNIX ran on PDP's with (as far as I remember w/o looking it up first) 128 KWORD. There also was a unixish OS LSX patterned after V7, which ran on a DEC (8bit ?) Microprocessor with 28 KWORDs and the kernel took up around 8

RE: Re Z80<->8088, was: Linux on TI?

1999-09-20 Thread Chipzz
> This is the main reason I'm posting ;-) The above is off by a DRAM > generation. The original PC-1 had 16K Drams and you could have a > whopping 64K on the motherboard. It came with a minimum 16Kbytes and > a Rom Basic from you-know-who. There was also a tape-machine interface > built in for "