8086, may I present you Linux.
Vincent Rodrigue
Hi everyone,
I'm happy now! I just heard of a UNIX alike OS is on his way to 8086
CPUs. I have no idea if it'll work on Tandys but, it's a start.
http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html
At last, we can PPP! Can Tandy gourus give their opinions on that please.
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CyberVince
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Cvi...@cris.com
http://www.cris.com/~Cvince
Benson L Chow
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.tandy: 23-Aug-96 8086, may I present you
Linux. by Vincent Rodr...@cris.co
> CPUs. I have no idea if it'll work on Tandys but, it's a start.
>
> http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html
>
> At last, we can PPP! Can Tandy gourus give their opinions on that please.
8086 linux has a long way to go :(
Right now, only a basic kernel is operating...
Yeah it will work on 1000's i think (hopefully tandy didn't screw around
with the hardware too much)
(and networking...longer...)
-bc
barrym
Vincent Rodrigue (Cvi...@cris.com) wrote:
: Hi everyone,
: I'm happy now! I just heard of a UNIX alike OS is on his way to 8086
:
: http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html
:
: At last, we can PPP! Can Tandy gourus give their opinions on that please.
Minix also works on an 8086. See comp.os.minix.
Minix does support PPP I think, but not for the 8086. I wonder
if that'll be true of Linux, too. One of the problems, I suspect,
is that in a multi-tasking system, it might be difficult for an
8086 to keep up with the demands of PPP while other tasks are
active. I don't know that this can't be done, but I do think
it might be stretching things a bit.
Barry
Vincent Rodrigue
barrym (bar...@neosoft.com) wrote:
: Vincent Rodrigue (Cvi...@cris.com) wrote:
: : At last, we can PPP! Can Tandy gourus give their opinions on that please.
: Minix also works on an 8086. See comp.os.minix.
I tought Minix was for custumized systems like Alex and such. I'll go see
that right away. Thanks.
Jeffrey L. Hayes
Vincent Rodrigue wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm happy now! I just heard of a UNIX alike OS is on his way to 8086
> CPUs. I have no idea if it'll work on Tandys but, it's a start.
>
> http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html
>
Linux requires at least a 386 and 2 meg RAM (EMS doesn't count),
preferably 4 meg, and for X Windows, 8. There is another Unix available
that will run on an 8086 with 640k, Minix.
PPP is possible on a Tandy 1000 running Tandy DOS (preferably 3.x or
later). There are several programs for DOS/PPP available on my site.
For more info, see the Tandy 1000-series FAQ:
http://www.agate.net/~tvdog/1kfaq117.html
ftp://ftp.agate.net/users/01935/tandy1000/documents/1kfaq117.txt
I run Linux on a Tandy 4033LX with 16 meg RAM, and it's great - if you
have a capable machine. It's good to have a math coprocessor for it if
you can get one, but it will run without.
jlh <tv...@agate.net>
Tom Guptill
The point of this whole post was that the ELKS (Embedded Linux Kernel
System) kernel is now bootable on 8086- and 80286-based machines. It's
still in the early stages of development (i.e. "init" isn't written yet),
but it looks like this project is going to be successful and we're going to
see a stripped-down Linux for 8- and 16-bit PCs. The Zilog Z80 is also on
the long-term list of development goals, though there are some pretty big
technical problems getting memory management and swapping to work. (Could
we see a TRS-80 UNIX?)
However, you can now no longer say "Linux will only run on 32-bit systems".
The ELKS kernel boots from floppy, there is a shell ("ash"), and there are
basic utilities. As soon as "init" is done, you may even see a bootable
developer's distribution.
Further project information can be found by searching altavista or your
favorite web indexer.
- Tom
> http://www.agate.net/~tvdog/1kfaq117.html
> ftp://ftp.agate.net/users/01935/tandy1000/documents/1kfaq117.txt
>jlh <tv...@agate.net>
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Tom Guptill t...@EOJ.mv.com
Trevor Jenkins
In article <4vl0br$1...@herald.concentric.net> <3220296D...@tvdog.sdi.agate.net> <1996Aug25.1...@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
tgpt...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) wrote:
> The point of this whole post was that the ELKS (Embedded Linux Kernel
> System) kernel is now bootable on 8086- and 80286-based machines. It's
> still in the early stages of development (i.e. "init" isn't written yet),
The sources snapshot dated 11-August-1996 includes an init. :-) It also includes
a login, an ls and instructions on how to build ash. :-) A visit to the ELKS
home page <http://www.linux.org.uk/elks> should guide you to the appropriate
files on <ftp://linux.mit.edu>.
[I do not normally read this group so email any comments. Isn't DejaNews
wonderful? :-)]
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