For the record, a Tandy 1000 HX (a machine similar to the IBM PCjr) stops
loading ELKS between boot messages "Starting..." and "Console: Direct 80x25
emulating vt52". Interesting to note, the attached text instructs on patching
Minix to run on a Tandy 1000.
I'd love to contribute, but my
8086s later. I've got an IBM PS/2 model 30 which I believe currently has
keyboard problems under ELKS, there are probably going to be a handful of
Just out of curiosity: has anyone with this infamous model 30 ever tried
BIOS console driver ? As far as i know it is supposed to be working now
I don't have any exact figures, but I'd figure that PCjrs upgraded
to 640K are somewhat rare. OOTB they came with 128K or maybe 256K.
_However_ some people bought the later versions - after upgrading they
were like regular PCs but cheaper. I'd figure that they would cost even
less now
I visited a Salvation Army center by house and they had tons of them
(the suitcase kind and they may be had a couple dozen or so) but I
cant testify to usability because they were all just laying on the
floor in the implicit "non working" section of the center. I can
see how much they cost if
From: Alistair Riddoch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael W. Shaffer)
Subject: Re: Boot success on PCjr
Date: Mon, Feb 08, 1999, 13:03
How common are these PCjr machines? If they are quite rare it may only be
worth including support for them as an option. If there are alot about
. Shaffer)
Subject: Re: Boot success on PCjr
Date: Mon, Feb 08, 1999, 13:03
How common are these PCjr machines? If they are quite rare it may only be
worth including support for them as an option. If there are alot about,
then we should support them out of the box.
Al
I have the only
This is going to cause some problems because the segment at 32K is used by
the BIOS disk driver. I think the driver only uses 1K as requests are only
ever 1k, and we do not glob requests together. I am considering hard coding
1k block requests into the kernel to simplify the request code,and
How common are these PCjr machines? If they are quite rare it may only be
worth including support for them as an option. If there are alot about,
then we should support them out of the box.
Just a few comments about the PCjr.
1) Unlike others on the list, I have only seen 1 or 2 at thrift
