27 Feb
1998
27 Feb
'98
4:39 a.m.
The only REAL problem with ELKS is that it's still very infant.
C/PM-68k is a very mature product and was designed for the type of small
systems that ELKS is now a "work around" for. It would be, as Roger
says, better in the long run to fix those portions of C/PM which can now
be optimised for modernity, rather than _just_ look at an experimental
port. Most of the questions ELKS must now answer, as a UNIX clone, have
been answered in CPM as a stand alone solution. Plus there's a boat
load of free programs.
BTW - Roger,
Where are you at? I'm in Ogden...
You're not related to Joni are you?
(Everyone in Utah is related ; - } )
-Mike
Roger Ivie wrote:
I think Linux is the best choice to enable latter
day retrocomputing.
Check out the ELKS project to put Linux on machines with very limited
resources:
On the other hand, CP/M-68K is available from http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm/.
A lot of it is written in C; with some work, it can be modernized and
updated. What could be more retro than building the ability to port
CP/M to anything with a C compiler?
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu