William Price writes:
>
> I have a Tandy HD 1000 Laptop (in fact there are several still out here in
> the world; they operate and last great) and it runs on an 8086 proc.
>
> Is there any news yet on whether this particular 8086 is going to be
> troublesome? I beleive part of the OS may be in rom...I'll check into it and
> repost. I know Tandy's flavor of DOS was mandatory for *some* reason, but I
> haven't looked into it again since I first tried two years ago.
I doubt very much that it is impossible to get ELKS booting on this
machine. All we have to do is find out what the difference are, and allow
for them in the source. It may be necessary to write drivers for custom
hardware.
>
>
> I would dearly love to use an 8086 laptop running ELKS, If I can get as much
> use as I have out of DOS. I do mostly text reading/composing (in EDIT), and
> also use a program called ODYSSEY for terminal emulation and dialup to shell
> accounts. I'd like top someday use it to network to the larger linux machine
> I'm building out of a 486 right now ( My main box is a P2...It doesn't get
> linux untill I know what I'm doing).
>
It sounds as though the things you do are mostly within ELKSs capability.
There is no networking yet, but loads of enthusiasm for it.
Al
