[...]
>Ahem.
>I know two things.
>1. It can live on rather small resources in terms RAM and CPU.
True; but porting it to ELKS would require an awful lot of developer
resources, that we can't spare.
[...]
>> TSR...) and it's full of arbitrary limits. It also relies on a segmented
>> architecture a lot.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
>
>2. It runs on MC68000, (atari) that is not segmented at all.
But 68k GEM and PC GEM are fundamentally different beasts. Yes, the
*applications* can be source-compatible, if you use the horrific set of
compatability macros provided (and no-one ever does because they are, indeed,
horrific); but the kernels aren't. At all.
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