[SDCC] Announce: Start of port to the Z80 (fwd)

1999-11-11 Thread Michael Hope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I apologise for sending this to the list, but the elks-z80 list seems to be dead at the moment. I'm hoping some of them also keep an eye on this one :) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:48:31 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: KISS networking for elks

1999-11-11 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Vali Dragnuta wrote: > As I knew about ELKS acute need for networking /* :-) */, here is > an idea I have to deal with the problem quite in a simple way. Ideas are fine, but I got sick of people talking about networking and just wrote it. Writing code is much faster fo

Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk

1999-11-11 Thread Ken Yap
>I have come across a few old machies that had sockets like this, but never >one that actually had a BASIC rom in it. I don't know what the ROM in this >socket needs to contain in order for the BIOS to recognise it as a BASIC >ROM and run it if boot fails. I think the BASIC ROM has a particular e

Re: KISS networking for elks

1999-11-11 Thread Thomas Stewart
>ELKS Networking proposal > I would like to help but I also have a tight school year ahead of me. I would like to help code as well. Again please don't flame me for making silly suggestions. I think that it is a good idea to implement our own protocal, especially seen as though tcp/ip is to m

KISS networking for elks

1999-11-11 Thread Vali Dragnuta
ELKS Networking proposal __ From: Dragnuta Valentin, ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] /*at my university */ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /*at my highschool */ Hello,guys ! As I knew about ELKS acute need for networking /* :-) */, here is an idea I have to deal with the prob

Cleaning memory

1999-11-11 Thread G.Aguiar
Hello, I have a problem that I don't know how to resolve. I have a program that for some reason it keeps some instructions at memory and does not take it out... result: after some hours running the prog "thinks"that had already done everything and dies without finishing its task. What I want to

Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk

1999-11-11 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Thomas Stewart writes: > > > > Not really--All I know is that PCs and XTs fell back on cassette BASIC > > > when the disk boot failed--AMI BIOS still makes a call to it when it > > > fails, but the BASIC roms don't exist in post-8088s. It does seem > > > intriguing, though. I'll see what I can c

Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk

1999-11-11 Thread Thomas Stewart
> > Not really--All I know is that PCs and XTs fell back on cassette BASIC > > when the disk boot failed--AMI BIOS still makes a call to it when it > > fails, but the BASIC roms don't exist in post-8088s. It does seem > > intriguing, though. I'll see what I can come up with. > > > >I have come ac

Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk

1999-11-11 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Greg Haerr writes: > > On Wednesday, November 10, 1999 10:45 AM, Alistair Riddoch >[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > : ELKS 0.0.81 has been released and is available from:- > > Al, > Does the 0.81 release have the /dev/pty's created on the root > and comb images automatically so that the

Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk

1999-11-11 Thread Alistair Riddoch
John Galt writes: > > > Not really--All I know is that PCs and XTs fell back on cassette BASIC > when the disk boot failed--AMI BIOS still makes a call to it when it > fails, but the BASIC roms don't exist in post-8088s. It does seem > intriguing, though. I'll see what I can come up with. > I

Embedded Linux.

1999-11-11 Thread Simon Wood
I found this link on LWN about embedding Linux, which is a interesting read. http://www.linuxdevices.com/cgi-bin/article_view.cgi?artid=AT2301017313 We even get a mention (about porting to the Palm - is anyone actually doing this with ELKS???). Perhaps Alistair should write and put them right,