Re: Elks progress

1999-09-28 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Thomas Stewart writes: > > hi > > >ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/microwindows-0.83.tar.gz > > > >Greg > > > > Would it be a good idea to put a link to this on the main ELKS web site? > Greg you must be getting board telling eveyone where it is? > Hmm, good idea. Wish I had

Re: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Thomas Stewart writes: > > hi > This many be a stupid idea, > > As far as I know consoles on linux are seperate, ie each can run diffrent > proceses independent of each other? > Is this the same for ELKS? (using the f keys) > > In my elks machine I have a vga card and a herc card, how can I us

Re: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Habib . Ahmed
Ha! ive been trying to get OFF this list for eons and havent had any luck so far... Alistair Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/28/99 02:22:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Stewart) cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Habib Ahmed/PK/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject: Re: your mail > Or is there a bette

RE: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Greg Haerr
: > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps : > that support it (tcc).) : : There is no current support for this in the ELKS code, but it does appeal : to me. Any idea how it can

RE: Another ELKS idea for shared libraries

1999-09-28 Thread Greg Haerr
On Monday, September 27, 1999 7:40 PM, Michael G Hughes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : >Currently, the biggest : >problem with shared libraries on 8086 and bcc is that the compiler can't : >produce position-independent code (ala -fPIC) so that even the code segment : >requires data relocations

Re: Another ELKS idea for shared libraries

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Cox
> : for task switching), can bcc handle that? Or create something like an > : indirect jump and glue code in the library. > > The indirect jump and glue code is exactly what is needed out of bcc. > currently, it doesn't generate any of that kind of code. It also cant do that on an 8086 w

RE: Another ELKS idea for shared libraries

1999-09-28 Thread Greg Haerr
On Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:56 AM, Alan Cox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : > : for task switching), can bcc handle that? Or create something like an : > : indirect jump and glue code in the library. : > : > The indirect jump and glue code is exactly what is needed out of bcc. : >

Re: Another ELKS idea for shared libraries

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Cox
> As I mentioned before, if this were performed with code segments > only, then they could still be shared with the resulting memory decrease benefit. But is outweighed by the cost of no swapping or defragmentation > In fact, with a ridiculous increase in code size, all absolute > lo

RE: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Luke (boo) Farrar
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > > : > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > : > that support it (tcc).) > : > : There is no current support for this in the ELK

Re: your mail

1999-09-28 Thread Christopher Kovacs
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:22:00AM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > Thomas Stewart writes: > > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > > that support it (tcc).) > > There is no

RE: Another ELKS idea for shared libraries

1999-09-28 Thread Greg Haerr
On Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:26 PM, Alan Cox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : > As I mentioned before, if this were performed with code segments : > only, then they could still be shared with the resulting memory decrease benefit. : : But is outweighed by the cost of no swapping or def

Anybody using this list?

1999-09-28 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Just thought I'd see if there was anybody here, since I'm brand new to this. I'm hoping to get ELKS on my Toshiba T1200 notebook (8086-10, 640K ram, dual 720K floppies) and use it as a serial console for all of my nifty serial devices (hubs, routers, sun boxen, etc.) Anybody tried anything simila

RE: duel screen (was: your mail)

1999-09-28 Thread Thomas Stewart
Hi >Why not just have a /dev/2tty driver set for the new monitor and >have init asign logins to /dev/tty and /dev/2tty? > >Luke(Boo) Farrar. I thought of making a different set of tty drivers, but how would you do that? Could you use mknod? How would you tell init to use them, would it be as s