On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Chipzz wrote:
> So you wanna stay here forever? Hmmm, not a good idea IMVHO.. We'll have
> to do far pointers SOME TIME, we can't put it off forever can we?
> IMVHO, if we don't have Far pointers, you might as well use DOS. There you
> DO have support. But that's not my intention...
With the IPC mechanisms built into Unix, single large programs become less
necessary. Now, I'm not saying that at some point it wouldn't be nice to
compile Emacs and run it under ELKS, but for right now, I agree with
Alistair - go with what you know.
> > In any case we lose nothing by building a test implementation.
>
> IMVHO we do: We lose time. Progress on ELKS is slow enough as it is all-
> ready :-/.
Huh? Not to open up a large can of worms here, but in my opinion the ONLY
reason for ELKS is for something fun for its participants to do. The
relative utility of 8086-class computers goes down every day. Consider
that you can buy a used computer with a Pentium 60 with onboard video,
IDE, serial, and parallel, 16 Mbyte of RAM and a 270 Mbyte hard disk for
around $75, and run REAL Linux on it (check it out for yourself on any of
the on-line auction web pages).
If time is a factor, "we" have ALREADY lost! Our ancient computers aren't
worth the electricity they consume! The only thing that matters at this
point, is the love of hacking. Plus I hope to run Unix on my HP 200LX
someday. :)
Shane
