Do you wish you could run Linux on your old IBM/XT or indeed the original IBM PC itself ? We are pleased to announce that Linux 8086 has now reached the point where it is ready for some wider testing. Harry Kalogirou has the TCP/IP stack functioning, and the rest of the system - though a little incomplete - is operating nicely. Not all compile options build admittedly, but it does boot, it does run and it does have a web server. It has taken a lot of work to squash so much into so little room, and we all have developed a great deal of respect for K&R along the way. Special thanks must go to Harry Kalogirou (TCP/IP) Riley Williams (our persistent CVS housekeeper) Alistair Riddoch (large chunks of the earlier code) and the rest of the contributors (some twenty or more) You will need the dev86 compiler kit (bcc for 8086, linker, tools), and a machine with 640K of RAM (booter assumption for now). EMS and extended memory is not yet supported. 286 machines will work but the 286 protected mode is not yet supported. A single floppy will do for a complete library and tools install. For hard disk devices 20Mb is vastly more than you will need. For reference an original IBM PC clocks in at 0.7 bogomips. A port to the PSION 3 is underway, along with disk based swapping. http://elks.sourceforge.net/ Alan -- "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel-announce" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
