[David Given:]
> UMSDOS is h u g e. While it *would* make ELKS easier to use, it would most
> likely use so much space you couldn't use it for everything. Remember you need
> the UMSDOS, MSDOS and FAT modules to make it work. If you *can* fit it in,
> it'd be wonderful; but I'd be surprised.
That's true -- but FAT is a very simple filesystem, so we may not actually
need that much code. Perhaps it'll be better to rewrite all the filesystem code
from scratch rather than lift it up from Linux-386. But before I do that I must
find out more about the UMSDOS data structures as well as the workings of the
kernel wrt filesystems...
> If you want an embedded system, you do *not* go for an Intel processor. You
> particularly don't go for a 16-bit Intel processor.
[...]
> The reasons for ELKS are primarily for fun and secondly to get useful work out
> of old hardware *we already have*. If you start having to pay money for the
> hardware, it no longer becomes worth it.
I have a suggestion... port ELKS to other, more exotic embedded platforms!
:) I used to work with an NEC 78K/III chip which has a 64K address space
(it's so obscure that I couldn't find much information about it on the web
:( ). It'll be interesting to imagine running some flavour of Unix on it.
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