Hello, Background:
I am looking for an environment compatible with the legacy 16-bits *nix-like OSes, because of the efficiency of smaller platforms, as long as the task fits the limitations. Many of those OSes are free now (e.g. Venix) but unfortunately the support for 16-bit Intel apparently has been lost forever (?). (Venix/[2]86 and its clones like a Venix-ABI-compatible BSD2.9 port to x86 made by some guy in Russia in early 1990-s are not available anywhere). I used to use multiuser Venix/86, even occasionally ran a spreadsheet with graphic output (no, not with Nano-X). Swapping and transparent code segment overlays made the OS quite capable for those days's applications. Minix2 does not exactly work like that but anyway it comes quite close. My questions are: Is there any working support for Nano-X under Minix2? Just in case, support for any other 16-bit *nix? What I found is http://minix1.woodhull.com/microwin.html which states that there was an unfinished effort dated 2002-10-23. Was there any Minix-related work done after that? How much did Nano-X change since then to make the old effort relevant regarding the current code? Best regards and thanks for keeping the small and nice tools like Nano-X alive. Rl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: nanogui-unsubscr...@linuxhacker.org For additional commands, e-mail: nanogui-h...@linuxhacker.org
