), but
it's very cool just the same (and it isn't a joke either- I have the
source code).
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ive. I think the processor was an 8086 and it was one of those
"just about" PC compatible clones that were popular for a while. You've no
chance of getting Lunux [sic] to run on it, but there's a fair chance ELKS
will work.
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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> 1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can Linux
> drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?
http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> Has the license been sorted yet?
Yes. It's MPL with a convert-to-GPL option (apart from David's original
code, which is PD).
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andon the original "swapware" license as it
was needlessly preventing Allegro's use in some situations.
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r would have to spend a
lot of his time back-porting changes from the MPL tree to his GPL tree
rather than working on new code).
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r any improvements made
to the GPLed version could be converted back to MPL without explicit
permission of the author of the changes.
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" option, with David's
original code retaining it's current Public Domain license. Vidar has
already said he's happy with that. Greg?
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the Nano/Micro series
> a standard for small systems. I also like Allegro's gift society type
> license though it may not be restrictive enough for some.
The latest version of Allegro is now fully Public Domain.
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: A
that- it's
easier to spend a few months or years writing it again. In the case of a
company, it's much cheaper to spend say $2 licensing some closed
source code than it is to have a team of developers spend a year or so
rewriting it from scratch.
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lions of users for a hardware manufacturer to be forced into
releasing a GPLed driver or specs for somebody to write a GPLed driver for
it? Roughly never?
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in the same way that MPLed code and any changes made to it
remain available.
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t having to release the
proprietory code under the same license.
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(you can't mix MPLed code in with GPLed code because of the
restrictive nature of the GPL).
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new code, license
the new code under MPL.
We'd have to seperate the code which requires David's public domain
license into seperate files to the code which is under MPL though.
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of the Xlib and Win32 api's, catering to small
> size and speed of porting, on Linux[CE,86] platforms."
Only Linux86 and LinuxCE? What about the thousands of other embedded
systems, palmtops, etc. it is useful for...
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r or work out some way to connect it to a composite
video monitor (unfortunately these cards don't have a direct composite
output), I can send you a card...
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ir XTs by
replacing the 8088 with a V20 and doubling the clock frequency.
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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Alex Holden wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> > I see. Does anyone have any code for auto-detection of an
> > 8087/8287/8387?
> >From allegro/src/cpu.c:
I finally figured out where it's hiding in the NetBSD tree (the maths
co
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Alex Holden wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> > I see. Does anyone have any code for auto-detection of an
> > 8087/8287/8387?
> >From allegro/src/cpu.c:
Here's another one.
>From linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S:
/*
* We dep
ot; 1:"
: "=a" (result)
:
: "%eax", "memory"
);
return result;
}
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nted out looked a bit naff.
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es graphics card, 640KB of RAM, and a 20MB hard
disk, and it was snappier than MS Word on a Pentium.
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ows/
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x27;m failry sure that there's a copy at
> ftp://ftp.demon.net/ for download (I could get exact info. if required)
It wouldn't let me log in.
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> On Thursday, June 03, 1999 1:36 PM, Alex Holden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> : On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> : > Keep networking mostly in user space. That btw is also the model things like
> : > the early networking wo
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ing them all to get them closer to X.
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