> >How common are these PCjr machines? If they are quite rare it may only be
> >worth including support for them as an option. If there are alot about,
> >then we should support them out of the box.
Just a few comments about the PCjr.
1) Unlike others on the list, I have only seen 1 or 2 at thrift stores, so
I guess the number of these around varies from place to place.
2) I think someone also mentioned the Tandy 1000 series as being
compatable, I personally have seen more of these around, if they are
compatable as far as ELKS is concerned, then we should concider them when
concidering how many PCjrs are out there.
3) I'm a little confused about the video memory issue. Don't video cards
on PCs and compatables use a memory range somewhere between 640k and
1024K? Sence it would be nice to get ELKS working on system other than
just PCs, maybe making the video memory address configurable would be
wise. On the other hand, I think I'd rather see progress made in getting
ELKS working well on 100% PC compatables, and porting to other 8088s and
8086s later. I've got an IBM PS/2 model 30 which I believe currently has
keyboard problems under ELKS, there are probably going to be a handful of
different systems that will have problems with ELKS, but I'd gladly forget
about ELKS on the PS/2 for the time being if I had a usefull system using
an origional PC (and I really need to get a PC connected some day soon so
I can try out the latest and greatest version of ELKS too....).
Dan
