21 Oct
2001
21 Oct
'01
11:13 a.m.
Yep. The only restriction on Linus's final blessed tarball is a MMU. ELKS
(and several other embedded/handheld ports) don't. ELKS will run on MMU
less 'Intel' systems. I had it going on an overclocked V20 for a while.
Jim
On Monday, October 22, 2001 3:13 PM, Tony Duell [SMTP:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
wrote:
I thought the whole point of ELKS was that it didn't need the MMU of the
386+ (it's that, rather than the 32 bit operations, that is the real
reason that full linux won't run on a 286 or below, I think).
One problem with running ELKS (or Minix) on the PCjr is the keyboard.
It's very software-intensive -- the IR datastream goes to the NMI pin on
the CPU (and maybe to an input port, I would have to check the techref).
It's up to the CPU to work out the timing of the pulses and decode it.
This could be 'interesting' if running a multitasking OS :-)...
-tony
Given enough RAM (640K?), is there any good reason why
ELKS couldn't be
ported to the PCjr?
No, I am not volunteering to try it....
-tony
I believe that all versions of Linux require a 32+ bit processor to run.