> In addition, the minix filesystem *must* support files > 512k, something it doesn't
>do
> now. The libc.a file is > 512k so you can't even link anything on ELKS. This
> requires supporting > 7 indirect blocks.
Umm it used to. What happened ?
> : Networking.
>
> I think we need ELKS DLL's for this, so that we can run the kernel and
> any user programs with separate code and data segments to keep the link
Keep networking mostly in user space. That btw is also the model things like
the early networking work on V7 unix took.
> : Protected mode stuff. (With Expanded memory support).
>
> We're a ways off from this, but it'd be nice. I'd like to see
> support for > 64k segments.
You then need a 386. 64K is the limit. The original work I did was designed
to be easy to run in 286 protected mode once you got rid of any BIOS interfaces.
