Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
The Psion 3a have a simple memory protection of a range of address that
the
program may write to, if a write outside these is attempted then an
interrupt is trigger - I will probably attempt to use this once I have
code.
However it is possible for a
On Monday, June 07, 1999 8:43 AM, Thor Harald Johansen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
: No without a special added hardware. The I8086, 8088, 80188, 80186
: have no memory protection implemented. First chip from Intel which
: has memory protection is 80286 as I know.
:
: If this is correct,
Surely the point of ELKS is that it's an *embedded* Linux system
(routers, settop boxen, etc), so even if multi-user is a possibility,
it's not a major design feature, eh? And if we're sticking the netstack
in userspace, this re-enforces the principle that "C2 compliant"
multi-user
Well, can memory be protected at all on an 8086?
No without a special added hardware. The I8086, 8088, 80188, 80186
have no memory protection implemented. First chip from Intel which
has memory protection is 80286 as I know.
Radek Hnilica
Radek Hnilica
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
Okay. I need a reasonably good text editor. Point me to one, please. ;)
levee comes with the elkscmd package.
Davey
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
Oh, by the way, the standard shell, is it very poor compared to other
shells?
Actually, it's not, if you look at all it's doing. Sash as a shell is
very basic, but internal to that one executable are a LOT of prorgams.
From small programs such
Hi Thor.
Depends on the shell you're using - I believe sash doesn't
implement pipes yet, but I'm not sure about any other shells...
There are other shells?
I have heard rumours that there's a version of ksh working for ELKS,
but I've never managed to track it down...
Other than that,
