Hello everyone,
I found ELKS a few months ago when I bought a used Tandy 1400 at
Good Will. 0.83 seems to run OK (I can use vi, mount and unmount floppies,
etc). I read in the TODO file that the serial drivers need to be
tested. Since I don't have the hacking skills to build my own comm
program, I used Minicom on my Linux machine to send letters to the serial
port of the ELKS machine. It seems to work fine both ways at the 9600 bps
that is the default using 'cat /dev/ttyS0' though cat seems awfully
slow. How do I set the ports to other speeds, other than modifying the
kernel source?
Also, the file bell.c has a loop like this:
bell()
{
unsigned int i;
sound(800);
for(i=0; i<60000; ++i)
;
nosound();
}
which is way too long (5 seconds) for any 8086 I've ever used (or my
Tandy's V-20). Is there something akin to bogomips that is tested by ELKS
that can be used to set the loop to some processor speed dependent value?
As to the value of ELKS mentioned earlier, I'm finding it fairly nice to
use, and I especially value it's simplicity since I feel that in a couple
of weeks I could learn enough to understand the entire thing.
- Brent
