Re: Curses?

1999-09-29 Thread Benjamin C. W. Sittler
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Chris Starling wrote: > Is anyone working on a curses library for ELKS? > > Methinks this would be a very handy thing to have... it'd allow lots > of Linux console apps to run in ELKS that otherwise can't. I wish I > had the C expertise to port ncurses myself... *sigh*

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

VNC on ELKS? (was Re: X?)

1999-01-27 Thread Benjamin C. W. Sittler
PalmVNC (for the PalmPilot and related palmtops) appears to use a monochrome frame buffer. The protocol is indeed lightweight, and the X11 client source code looks fairly well-documented. I suspect that VNC could be quite bearable with a Hercules graphics card. Of course, this discussion is somew