RE: Hardware

1999-07-13 Thread Radek Hnilica
Hello, > > To my understanding ELKS is aimed as a teaching project as well as an > > embedded OS, there are huge numbers of out of date machine being buried > > as trash, hopeful ELKS will bring new life to these machines. Some > > machine based around the 8086 do have memory prote

RE: Hardware

1999-07-08 Thread Luke (boo) Farrar
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Radek Hnilica wrote: > Hello Simon > > (if you'd said were you're from I would have attempted to say hi in your > > native language..) > My native language is Czech. Ahoj? Luke(Boo) Farrar.

RE: Hardware

1999-07-07 Thread Radek Hnilica
Hello Simon > (if you'd said were you're from I would have attempted to say hi in your > native language..) My native language is Czech. > You have some interesting ideas, I would like to comment on a few please > see below... > [] > To my understanding ELKS is aimed as a teaching pro

RE: Hardware

1999-07-07 Thread Simon Wood
Hello Radek Hnilica, (if you'd said were you're from I would have attempted to say hi in your native language..) You have some interesting ideas, I would like to comment on a few please see below... Simon Wood Hardware Engineer Pace Micro Technology plc Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley West Yo

Re: Hardware 8088 and 80286 debugger available

1999-02-17 Thread David Given
[...] >I have been thinking along the same lines. I have just been playing with >the debugger and it could do with some tweaks. > >My first request would be that simply pressing return in the debugger >repeats the last command. This makes it much easier to step through code. > >Secondly, a sorted

Re: Hardware 8088 and 80286 debugger available

1999-02-17 Thread Alistair Riddoch
David Given writes: > > [...] > >I gave this another try yesterday with the new release, and it works > >really well. The only real problem with it is that it does not detect kep > >presses very well. Most keypresses are either missed, or come up multiple > >times. Any idea how to get round this?

Re: Hardware 8088 and 80286 debugger available

1999-02-17 Thread David Given
[...] >I gave this another try yesterday with the new release, and it works >really well. The only real problem with it is that it does not detect kep >presses very well. Most keypresses are either missed, or come up multiple >times. Any idea how to get round this? The last time I tried it (and I

Re: Hardware 8088 and 80286 debugger available

1999-02-17 Thread Alistair Riddoch
David Given writes: > > > A co-worker has some old but possibly useful equipment available. He has > >some hardware debuggers that install as ISA cards into a standard PC. > >One is for 286's and one is for the 8088. They send data out to a serial > >port and also have a handheld switch that can

Re: Hardware 8088 and 80286 debugger available

1999-02-16 Thread David Given
> A co-worker has some old but possibly useful equipment available. He has >some hardware debuggers that install as ISA cards into a standard PC. >One is for 286's and one is for the 8088. They send data out to a serial >port and also have a handheld switch that can be used to step through >code.

Re: Hardware 8088 and 80286 debugger available

1999-02-15 Thread Louis Paul Santillan
Robert Collins of x86.org has some good docs on these debuggers. They are ICE I believe and Robert goes into detail about how he used them for debugging before this type of debugging could be done w/in the CPU (486 or 386s were the first to do this). Louis On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Raymond A. Ingle